1st Sgt. Milton Warden
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Sergeant Milton Anthony Warden, the first sergeant of Prewitt’s company. Thirty-four years old, efficient, and coolheaded, he, not Captain Holmes, really runs the company. He is tough but fair ...
From Here to Eternity offers an unflinching view of army life. Jones captures the spirit of the peacetime army with extraordinary accuracy and authenticity; he uses the vulgar, graphic language of ...
Warden spends a vacation with Holmes’s wife but discovers they are not compatible. He returns to the barracks a man again alone. Prewitt is now absent without leave (AWOL); he spends his days ...
From Here to Eternity is the novel for which he is mostly remembered. Film adaptations were made of From Here to Eternity, The Thin Red Line, and Jones’s second novel, Some Came Running (1957 ...
From Here to Eternity was dramatized by Mark J. Appleman in 1952 as Stockade, a play of limited exposure and appeal.The novel was first filmed in 1953 (produced by Buddy Adler, directed by Fred ...
From Here to Eternity, a critical as well as a popular success, was the basis for a well-known film of the same title.Jones’s first novel and winner of the National Book Award for Fiction in ...
The speaker then says that "yonder all before us lie / Deserts of vast eternity." The "deserts" here metaphorically represent death. They stretch on for an "eternity," just like death does.
A Very Brief History of Eternity has been well received as a book that is both erudite and entertaining. Eire’s ability to explain complex ideas and to elucidate the ways in which concepts of ...
The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. ... Each day, in itself, brings with it an eternity. This is a lesson that Santiago needs to learn.
The poetic speaker now reveals herself to be speaking from eternity, the friend of Immortality, having been gone for "Centuries," and now sharing a flashback reminiscence of the day she first ...
