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The Human Comedy: Directed by Clarence Brown. With Mickey Rooney, Frank Morgan, James Craig, Marsha Hunt. Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in small-town Ithaca to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war.
The Human Comedy is a 1943 novel by William Saroyan. It originated as a 240-page film script written for MGM. Saroyan was planning to produce and direct the film, but he was dropped from the project either because the script was too long or because a short film he directed as a test was not considered acceptable — or both. [1]
The Human Comedy is a 1943 American comedy-drama film directed by Clarence Brown. It began as a screenplay by William Saroyan, who was expected to direct. After Saroyan was removed from the project, he wrote the novel of the same name and published it just before the film was released.
The Human Comedy, a vast series of some 90 novels and novellas by Honoré de Balzac, known in the original French as La Comédie humaine. The books that made up the series were published between 1829 and 1847.
La Comédie humaine (French: [la kɔmedi ymɛn]; English: The Human Comedy) is Honoré de Balzac's 1829–48 multi-volume collection of interlinked novels and stories depicting French society in the period of the Restoration (1815–30) and the July Monarchy (1830–48).
The Human Comedy tells the story of Homer Macaulay, 14 year old man of the family now that his brother Marcus has gone into the Army to serve the government in WWII. Homer was able to get a job as a telegraph messenger, even though he was two years too young for the job.
The Human Comedy, sentimental novel of life in a small California town by William Saroyan, published in 1943. The narrator of the story, 14-year-old Homer Macauley, lives with his widowed mother, his sister Bess, and his little brother Ulysses; his older brother has left home to fight in World War.
Mar 8, 2010 · In the first place, the work of every great writer, of the creative kind, including that of Dante himself, is a comedie humaine. All humanity is latent in every human being; and the great writers are merely those who call most of it out of latency and put it actually on the stage.
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The Human Comedy. Hardcover – February 1, 1943. The Human Comedy, Saroyan's first novel, is the story of an American family in wartime, and in particular of Homer Macauley, the fastest messenger in San Joaquin valley.
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Mar 13, 2020 · The human comedy. Homer is a night messenger for the Postal Telegraph Office in a small California town during World War II after his father dies and his brother serves in the army. Young Homer becomes a witness to sorrows and joys of small town people during World War II.
