First Edition, First Printing

New York:  Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1944.  First edition, first printing.  Good Condition.  Publisher's black cloth hardcover on board and spine.  Wear along the edges of cover boards.  Some discoloration and fading to covers.  Tight binding.  The novel is concerned in large part with the search for the meaning of life and with the dichotomy between materialism and spirituality. Set in Chicago, Paris, and India in the 1920s and ’30s, it involves characters from sharply different worlds. The main focus of the story is on Larry Darrell, who has returned from service as an aviator in World War I utterly rejecting his prewar values. He is concerned chiefly with discovering the meaning of human existence and eliminating evil in the world. To that end, he spends five years in India seeking—but not finding—answers.

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