New Article – the Novel Putnam Published Instead of Love on the Dole: Hans Fallada’s Little Man What Now (1933)

In 1932 Greenwood received a letter from the publisher George Putnam saying that though they had read his manuscript [of what was to become titled Love on the Dole], they could not take it because they already had a similar unemployment novel in their lists – a translation of the German novelist Hans Fallada’s Little Man What Now [Kleiner Mann was nunn]. Luckily, Greenwood also soon received a letter from Jonathan Cape Ltd, saying that they would publish his novel. This article compares the two apparently similar novels and their publishing fortunes.

See: https://waltergreenwoodnotjustloveonthedole.com/the-novel-putnam-published-instead-of-love-on-the-dole-hans-falladas-little-man-what-now-1933/

• Best Chris.