George Marvin Brush is a travelling textbook salesman and fervent religious convert, determined to lead a good life. With sad and sometimes hilarious consequences, his travels take him through smoking cars, bawdy houses, banks and campgrounds from Texas to Illinois and into the soul of 1930s America. First published in 1935, this is American author and dramatist Thornton Wilder's masterful portrayal of the power of an outsider's viewpoint.