Of Mice and Men - Softcover

Steinbeck, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749397799 ISBN 13: 9780749397791

Publisher: Minerva, 1995

Synopsis

George and Lennie are two itinerant ranch hands drifting through life. Semi-retarded, timid and unknowingly powerful, Lennie is lost without his guardian, George, who feels his slow-witted friend has been delivered into his keeping. Bound by their fragile dream of owning land where they will 'belong', their paradisial future is all too soon tragically and irrevocably shattered.

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About the Author

John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California, in 17 February 1902. After studying English at Stanford University, he held several jobs including working as a hod-carrier, apprentice painter, laboratory assistant, ranch hand, fruit-picker, construction worker at Madison Square Gardens, New York, and reporter for the New York American. In 1935 he became a full-time writer and was a special writer for the United States Army Air Force during World War II. Among his most renowned works are Of Mice and Men, Cannery Row, East of Eden and The Grapes of Wrath, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1940. In 1926 Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature as a mark of his outstanding contribution to literature, his unquestionable popularity and his versatility. In his speech accepting the Nobel Prize, Steinbeck gave his view of authorship: 'The ancient omission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our may grevious faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of improvement. Furthermore, the writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit for gallantry in defeat - for courage, compassion and love.' John Steinbeck died on 20th December 1968.

Edition details

• Publisher: Minerva
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0749397799
• ISBN 13: 9780749397791
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128