Of Mice and Men

Author(s): John Steinbeck

Classics

A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool. On one side of the river the golden foothill slopes curve up to the strong and rocky Gabilan Mountains, but on the valley side the water is lined with trees- willows fresh and green with every spring, carrying in their lower leaf junctures the debris of the winter's flooding; and sycamores with mottled, white, recumbent limbs and branches that arch over the pool. On the sandy bank under the trees the leaves lie deep and so crisp that a lizard makes a great skittering if he runs among them. Rabbits come out of the brush to sit on the sand in the evening, and the damp flats are covered with the night tracks of 'coons, and with the spread pads of dogs from the ranches, and with the split-wedge tracks of deer that come to drink in the dark.


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Shortlisted for BBC Big Read Top 100 2003.

Of Mice and Men is a heartbreaking tale of friendship, struggle, and America's migrant workers. The novella focuses on George Milton and Lennie Small, two migrant ranch workers, who move from place to place in California in search of new job opportunities during the Great Depression in the United States. A poignant and powerful story that will stay with you. Paul, The Book Grocer.

Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. His complete works will be available in Penguin Modern Classics.

General Fields

  • : 9780141185101
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : 0.114
  • : October 2017
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 8mm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : FA
  • : FA
  • : 144
  • : 144
  • : very good
  • : very good
  • : 813/.5/2
  • : 813/.5/2
  • : English
  • : English
  • : Paperback
  • : Paperback
  • : John Steinbeck
  • : John Steinbeck