The Day of the Beast (novel)
The Day of the Beast is a 1922 novel by Zane Grey.
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Daren Lane, a World War I veteran, returns from the battlefields of Europe to the American Midwest. In Middletown USA, he encounters a postwar Jazz Age society whose revelers are tired of hearing about the war. Lane attempts to stem the tide of hedonism and debauchery that is sweeping the town with mixed results.
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Categories:
- 1922 American novels
- Novels by Zane Grey
- Novels set in the Roaring Twenties
- 1920s novel stubs