Of Mice And Men
Trade paperback edition in fair condition. Some wear to cover, Yellowing to page edges. Good reading copy.
“Everybody wants a little bit of land, not much. Jus’ som’thin’ he could live on and there couldn’t nobody throw him off of it.”
They are 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 they have formed a “family,” clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in California’s dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. But George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own.
Steinbeck creates an intimate portrait of two men facing a world marked by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy, and callousness. Though the scope is narrow, the theme is universal: a friendship and a shared dream that makes an individual’s existence meaningful.
*Challenged for “vulgarity, racism, and treatment of women.”
Trade paperback edition in fair condition. Some wear to cover, Yellowing to page edges. Good reading copy.
“Everybody wants a little bit of land, not much. Jus’ som’thin’ he could live on and there couldn’t nobody throw him off of it.”
They are 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 they have formed a “family,” clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in California’s dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. But George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own.
Steinbeck creates an intimate portrait of two men facing a world marked by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy, and callousness. Though the scope is narrow, the theme is universal: a friendship and a shared dream that makes an individual’s existence meaningful.
*Challenged for “vulgarity, racism, and treatment of women.”
Trade paperback edition in fair condition. Some wear to cover, Yellowing to page edges. Good reading copy.
“Everybody wants a little bit of land, not much. Jus’ som’thin’ he could live on and there couldn’t nobody throw him off of it.”
They are 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 they have formed a “family,” clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in California’s dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. But George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own.
Steinbeck creates an intimate portrait of two men facing a world marked by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy, and callousness. Though the scope is narrow, the theme is universal: a friendship and a shared dream that makes an individual’s existence meaningful.
*Challenged for “vulgarity, racism, and treatment of women.”
ISBN 0-14-018642-5
John Steinbeck
1937