Of Mice and Men (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
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A controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great Depression "A thriller, a gripping tale .
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that you will not set down until it is finished.
Steinbeck has touched the quick." —The New York Times John Steinbeck's classic novella follows an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child.
Yet together they have formed a family, clinging to each other in the face of loneliness, and alienation, and hardship.
Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence.
For George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own.
When they land jobs on a ranch in the Salinas Valley, the fulfillment of their dream seems to be within their grasp.
But even George cannot guard Lennie from the provocations of a flirtatious woman, nor predict the consequences of Lennie's unswerving obedience to the things George taught him.
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- A controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great Depression:
- "A thriller, a gripping tale . . . that you will not set down until it is finished. Steinbeck has touched the quick." —
- This item:
- Of Mice and Men (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
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- Times Literary Supplement
- Cup of Gold:
- (1929). After marriage and a move to Pacific Grove, he published two California books,
- The Pastures of Heaven:
- (1932) and
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