GOD'S LITTLE ACRE. Erskine Caldwell, Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1933.
 
Fiction Novel
Vintage from the 1930s
 
God's Little Acre is a 1933 novel by Erskine Caldwell about a dysfunctional farming family in Georgia obsessed with sex and wealth. The novel's sexual themes were so controversial that the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice asked a New York state court to censor it.
 
Like Tobacco Road, this novel chronicles the final decline of a poor white family in rural Georgia. Exhorted by their patriarch Ty Ty, the Waldens ruin their land by digging it up in search of gold. 
 
Although controversial, the novel became an international best seller with over 10 million copies sold, and was published as an Armed Services Edition during WWII. God's Little Acre is Caldwell's most popular novel and was later adapted as a 1958 film starring Robert Ryan.
 
Secure binding with clean pages and mild cover wear. Hardcover book with 303 pages.