The Elephant is White

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The Elephant is White
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First US edition
Author Caryl Brahms
S.J. Simon
Country United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreComedy
Publisher Michael Joseph (UK)
Farrar & Rinehart (US)
Publication date
1939
Media typePrint

The Elephant is White is a 1939 comedy novel by Caryl Brahms and S.J. Simon, a regular writing team between 1937 and 1950. In prewar Paris an idle Englishman runs into a group of eccentric Russian exiles in a nightclub.

Contents

Film adaptation

In 1944 it was adapted into the film Give Us the Moon directed by Val Guest and starring Margaret Lockwood, Vic Oliver and Roland Culver. [1] The film updated the plot into a future postwar era.

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References

  1. Goble p.429

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