From Here to Eternity - Penguin Modern Classics (Paperback)

A blockbuster of a book... raw and brutal and angry * The New York Times *
The achievement of an exceptional novelist... Filled with a wide range of human emotions, with humour and nobility, with rage and love, with savagery and tenderness * New York Herald Tribune *
Extraordinary and utterly irresistable ... a compelling and compassionate story * Los Angeles Times *
Ferocious... the most realistic and forceful novel I've read about life in the army * The New Yorker *
The only one of my contemporaries who I felt had more talent than myself was James Jones. And he has also been the only writer of any time for whom I felt any love * Norman Mailer *
Certain places seem to exist mainly because someone has written about them. Kilimanjaro belongs to Ernest Hemingway. Oxford, Mississippi belongs to William Faulkner ... A great deal of Honolulu itself has always belonged for me to James Jones * Joan Didion *
From Here to Eternity has fine qualities in abundance... No novel had so vividly - and shockingly, to a civilian readership - conveyed the brutality of peacetime army life * Times Literary Supplement *