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From Here to Eternity (novel)
''From Here to Eternity'' is the debut novel of American author James Jones, published by Scribner's in 1951. It is loosely based on Jones' experiences in the pre-World War II Hawaiian Division's 27th Infantry and the unit in which he served, Company E ("The Boxing Company"). Fellow company member Hal Gould said that while the novel was based on the company, including some depictions of actual persons, the characters are fictional and both the harsh conditions and described events are inventions.
''From Here to Eternity'' won the National Book Award〔 and was named one of the 100 Best Novels of the 20th century by the Modern Library Board.〔 There were three screen adaptations (below).
==Plot==
Set in the summer and autumn of 1941 at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii, the story follows several members of G Company, including Captain Dana “Dynamite” Holmes and First Sergeant Milt Warden, who begins an affair with Holmes' wife Karen. At the heart of the novel lies a struggle between former bugler Private Robert E. Lee Prewitt, an infantryman from Kentucky and self-described "thirty-year man" (a career soldier), and his superiors. Because he accidentally blinded a fellow soldier while boxing, Prewitt refuses to box for his company’s outfit and then resists the "Treatment," a daily hazing ritual in which the non-commissioned officers of his company run him into the ground.
The central characters are essentially similar in all three of Jones' World War II novels, though their names are altered. ''From Here to Eternity'' features Warden and Prewitt, who become Welsh and Witt in ''The Thin Red Line'' (1962) and Mart Winch and Bobby Prell in ''Whistle'' (1978). Similarly, Corporal Fife in ''The Thin Red Line'' reappears as Marion Landers in ''Whistle'', as does the cook, Maylon Stark, who becomes Storm, then Johnny "Mother" Strange. Stark was the object of an error of chronology in Chapter 16 of the book when on the company's first foray off of the Schofield Base, he is greeted by Mrs Kipfer at the New Congress Hotel, a house of prostitution, as an old, longtime customer. What is overlooked is the fact Stark has just transferred into the company from Fort Bliss in Texas and this is his first tour to Hawaii.
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