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Norman Mailer's novel The Naked and the Dead (1948) is a masterpiece of American literature about World War II. The plot follows a platoon of American soldiers on the fictional Pacific island of Anopopeia during their fight against the Japanese army.
The original title is "The Fall of the House of Winshaw or Which ...." - an allusion to E. A. Poe's famous story "The Fall of the House of Usher".
The novella was published for the first time in 1961 in the magazine Novij mir and aroused anger among critics, pointing out that it is only "about the narrow, intimate experiences of the heroine".
In this novel, Gray combines the white-hot psychosis of the gold rush with magnificent descriptions of the wild mountains of Idaho – one of his most thrilling and tragic novels.
