One of the best English works of psychological realism. The book that the critics called "the American" Don Quixote "".An immortal novel, superbly filmed in 1957. Its plot outline is deceptively simple: in the wilderness on a country road, an ordinary regular bus has lost its way and got stuck. Bus passengers - young and old, rich and poor - represent such a fully and accurately written cross-section of American society in the forties of the twentieth century that the unpretentious story of the "lost bus" turns into a vivid acutely social "drama of characters."