- Fiction, Manners and customs, Satire in Fiction, Political Fiction
Steinbeck's only work of political satire turns the French Revolution on its head, as amateur astronomer Pippin Heristal is drafted in to rule the unruly French. Enchanting comedy ensues as Steinbeck creates the most hilarious royal court ever around the brief, bold reign of the corduroy-clad Pippin, his social-climbing wife Maria, his star-struck daughter Clotilde and her Californian beau, Todd.
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Comic, warm, cool and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
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- Author
- John Steinbeck
- First published
- 1957
- Pages
- 176
- Publisher
- Brand: Viking Adult, Viking Press, Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media
- Editions
- 37
- Language
- tur, und, German, English
- ISBN
- 9780143039464
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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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