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A collection of interconnected short stories, all set in the Salinas Valley in California. The book includes classic Steinbeck stories such as ‘The Vigilante’ and ‘The Red Pony’.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and prestige.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- John Steinbeck
- First published
- 1938
- Pages
- 276
- Publisher
- Mandarin, Penguin USA, Inc., Bellona
- Editions
- 64
- Language
- tur, English, Polish, French
- ISBN
- 9780140187519
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“The high grey-flannel fog of winter closed off the Salinas Valley from the sky and from all the rest of the world.”
John Steinbeck was an American writer. He wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel *The Grapes of Wrath* (1939) and the novella *Of Mice and Men* (1937). He wrote a total of 27 books, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and five collections of short stories. In 1962, Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature ([Source][1]). [1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck
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