About the book: 1939 / The humorous story "The Polar Bear" is written by the American proletarian writer Erskine Caldwell. Soviet readers are already familiar with this author from his book "American Stories", which tells the story of white and black slaves in the capitalist south, USA, and the novel "Tobacco Road", which tells about the terrible exploitation of black sharecroppers on tobacco plantations. "White Bear" is taken from a new collection of Caldwell's stories, in which an observant artist depicts the life of small farmers in the southern United States. Drawings by M. Miloslavsky. From the magazine “Around the World” No. 7, 1939.