The Judas Tree
First US edition | |
| Author | A. J. Cronin |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | Gollancz (UK) Little, Brown (USA) |
Publication date | 1961 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover & paperback) |
| Pages | 345 pp. (UK hardcover edition) |
| ISBN | 0-450-01393-6 (UK hardcover) |
The Judas Tree is a 1961 novel by A. J. Cronin. It is considered one of the author's finest works and demonstrated a keen understanding of sin. Cronin described the book as "a complete dissection of a supreme egoist - a well-intentioned man who, through psychological and sociological influences, develops into a weak and self-indulgent heel who brings disaster on three different women and is himself destroyed by the fourth."