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Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (1963)
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The Centennial boxed set East of Eden, The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, Cannery Row, The Pearl , and Travels with Charley in Search of America .
@IAmWithSam Lennie came back into the cabin with that look on his face and I said, Lennie, did you kill another woman?
He told me he had done it again, he thought. Why do I get stuck with the dangerously disabled? Did Forrest Gump ever hurt anyone?
From The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less
@IAmWithSam Lennie came back into the cabin with that look on his face and I said, Lennie, did you kill another woman?
He told me he had done it again, he thought. Why do I get stuck with the dangerously disabled? Did Forrest Gump ever hurt anyone?
From The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less
48 pages, Paperback
First published February 5,2002
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48 pages, Paperback
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January 1, 2002 by Penguin Group USA
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9780147716750
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0147716756
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English
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John Ernst Steinbeck was an American writer. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception". He has been called "a giant of American letters."
During his writing career, he authored 33 books, with one book coauthored alongside Edward F. Ricketts, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories. He is widely known for the comic novels Tortilla Flat (1935) and Cannery Row (1945), the multi-generation epic East of Eden (1952), and the novellas The Red Pony (1933) and Of Mice and Men (1937). The Pulitzer Prize–winning The Grapes of Wrath (1939) is considered Steinbeck's masterpiece and part of the American literary canon. By the 75th anniversary of its publishing date, it had sold 14 million copies.
Most of Steinbeck's work is set in central California, particularly in the Salinas Valley and the California Coast Ranges region. His works frequently explored the themes of fate and injustice, especially as applied to downtrodden or everyman protagonists.
During his writing career, he authored 33 books, with one book coauthored alongside Edward F. Ricketts, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories. He is widely known for the comic novels Tortilla Flat (1935) and Cannery Row (1945), the multi-generation epic East of Eden (1952), and the novellas The Red Pony (1933) and Of Mice and Men (1937). The Pulitzer Prize–winning The Grapes of Wrath (1939) is considered Steinbeck's masterpiece and part of the American literary canon. By the 75th anniversary of its publishing date, it had sold 14 million copies.
Most of Steinbeck's work is set in central California, particularly in the Salinas Valley and the California Coast Ranges region. His works frequently explored the themes of fate and injustice, especially as applied to downtrodden or everyman protagonists.
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This book is the chronicling of Steinbeck’s reflections on a changing America that he formed as he circumnavigated the country with his wife’s dog Charley and a camper/trailer attached to his truck. Although much of this actual experience has been shown to be fabricated, his insights into America have mostly stood the tests of time. His writing, as always, is beautiful and thoughtful.
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I love this man. He is by far my favorite author. To me he can not go wrong.
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Cannery row
“it has always seemed strange to me,” said doc. “The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits that we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second”
“it has always seemed strange to me,” said doc. “The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits that we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second”
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You have to grab this collection. If you haven't read Steinbeck, he is amazing. John Steinbeck was able to capture a different time and the people who lived through some of the worst times our nation has ever faced. He captures the characters like no other author and takes readers on a journey they will never forget.
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This was an AP English read in high school and I loved it. I kept it at the top of my list for years and as I got older, I wanted to reread to see if I still loved it as much. I loved it even more on the reread and found so many parallels between the Dust Bowl and inequities that still exist today. The in-between chapters of commentary are phenomenal.
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Excellent collection. I would also add Once There Was a War and America and Americans to the list of Steinbeck books worth reading.
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Steinbeck has long been recognized as one of America's finest writers and The Grapes of Wrath one of its finest novels.While not technically speaking a political writer, his Grapes of Wrath is a searing indictment of some aspects of Capitalism,(see his moving portrait of Muley Graves as he tries to find who to shoot for moving him off his farm, only to realize the "who" has become so entrenched in the Capitalist System as to be unrecognizable),a fact which has often led people to view him as a Socialist. Steinbeck was far from a Socialist. If you were rash enough to try to force him into any box, I think Humanist would be a much better fit.
Steinbeck cared about people;very often those who struggled to merely survive. His books are filled with such characters.Those who seldom win awards or warrant headlines, but are oftentimes heroic in the face of insurmountable odds.I know some critics have scoffed and pointed to Lennie in Of Mice and Men as a kind of character straight out of burlesque, but when I was teaching secondary school,that wonderful short epic novel was the only book I ever assigned that was cherished by every students regardless of level.
East of Eden still has a special meaning for me. It was recommended to me by a wonderful old psychology teacher during my junior year in college when I was struggling over whether to follow my older brother into medical school and gain the parental approval that went with it,or follow my heart and chose a life in the Arts.The old professor knew I would recognize that story of the two brothers in East of Eden as my own.
Then there is Travels With Charley. I used to think it a strange book for a great writer like Steinbeck.It wasn't a novel or short story--- not even a play ,which Steinbeck tried once with only middling success in The Moon is Down.It was a kind of travelogue! A story of a trip the aging writer took with his dog,Charley, across the USA to rediscover an America which had become blurred to him over the years.What he found was an America that had changed. Changed not because he was older and unable to feel things as profoundly as he once had.That was Wordsworth's discovery,not his. America itself had changed. It had become homogenized. Everywhere he went looked the same. Mirror images.In a sense, the melting pot called America had been stirred in such a way that all the ingredients were now indistinguishable.Language,dress,ceremony.All become one.Boston become Biloxi.New York ,New Orleans.It was a change that bothered him a great deal. America had lost something.Something that had made it unique.Interesting. A place worth writing about.What had once been a country of vibrant color had overnight become a singular shade of gray.
I used to wonder why he wrote that book. I don't any more.
Steinbeck cared about people;very often those who struggled to merely survive. His books are filled with such characters.Those who seldom win awards or warrant headlines, but are oftentimes heroic in the face of insurmountable odds.I know some critics have scoffed and pointed to Lennie in Of Mice and Men as a kind of character straight out of burlesque, but when I was teaching secondary school,that wonderful short epic novel was the only book I ever assigned that was cherished by every students regardless of level.
East of Eden still has a special meaning for me. It was recommended to me by a wonderful old psychology teacher during my junior year in college when I was struggling over whether to follow my older brother into medical school and gain the parental approval that went with it,or follow my heart and chose a life in the Arts.The old professor knew I would recognize that story of the two brothers in East of Eden as my own.
Then there is Travels With Charley. I used to think it a strange book for a great writer like Steinbeck.It wasn't a novel or short story--- not even a play ,which Steinbeck tried once with only middling success in The Moon is Down.It was a kind of travelogue! A story of a trip the aging writer took with his dog,Charley, across the USA to rediscover an America which had become blurred to him over the years.What he found was an America that had changed. Changed not because he was older and unable to feel things as profoundly as he once had.That was Wordsworth's discovery,not his. America itself had changed. It had become homogenized. Everywhere he went looked the same. Mirror images.In a sense, the melting pot called America had been stirred in such a way that all the ingredients were now indistinguishable.Language,dress,ceremony.All become one.Boston become Biloxi.New York ,New Orleans.It was a change that bothered him a great deal. America had lost something.Something that had made it unique.Interesting. A place worth writing about.What had once been a country of vibrant color had overnight become a singular shade of gray.
I used to wonder why he wrote that book. I don't any more.
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