A small masterpiece can be described as this novella by Steinbeck. The moon came down low, so low that it bent the morale of the conquerors. And so low that it warmed the souls and ignited the resistance of a people against them.

The people do not obey the conquerors. Mayor Orden does not yield to their pressures: “If I tell them to fight, they will be happy, and I, who am not so brave, will have made them a little braver...”. The people indeed became braver, and the sacrifice of the mayor became an example of resistance.

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]