IN February 1938, according to a Gallup Poll, A.J. Cronin's recently published novel, The Citadel (1937), ‘impressed' more people than any other book except the Bible.1 A.J. Cronin was perhaps the most successful novelist of the 1930s, and the most successful of his novels was The Citadel. This sold more copies, and faster, than any other hardback novel of the decade. It was to become an equally popular film. The Citadel, to the extent that any novel can claim such a status, was perhaps the representative novel of the 1930s. Its popularity is more surprising in that as a highly political–medical novel, it did not have the usual ingredients of the best-seller. Cronin's standing has nonetheless largely been ignored by historians. Even D.L. LeMahieu, in what is probably the best study of the literary–political...

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