Of Mice and Men: A Play in Three Acts
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| Rating | : | 4.83 (968 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0143117203 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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"How shall we balance loyalty and practicality?" according to Blayden Thompson. I enjoyed Mr. Steinbeck's writing style and quickly related to the characters. Like many of us, we sometimes have friends who take us down a difficult path which causes angst and trepidation as we attempt to balance loyal and practicality. Well done Mr. Ste. Five Stars Linda V. Summer reading. MNPFS said So many good reasons to read this book. If you’re wondering whether you should read Of Mice and Men or not, you probably should, for the following reasons.1. It’s a classic. Obviously, classic doesn’t always mean good, however, it almost always means that it’s a book you s
Here is Steinbeck’s dramatic adaptation of his novel-as-play, which received the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play in 1937-1938 and has featured a number of actors who have played the iconic roles of George and Lennie on stage and film, including James Earl Jones, John Malkovich and Gary Sinise.From the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden, this classic story of an unlikely pair, two migrant workers in California during the Great Depression who grasp for their American Dream, profoundly touches readers and audiences alike. But after they come to work on a ranch in the fertile Salinas Valley of California, their hopes, like “the best laid schemes o’mice an’ men,” begin to go awry.Of Mice and Men also represents an experiment in form, as Steinbeck described hi
Steinbeck has contributed a small masterpiece to the modern tough-tender school of American fiction.”Times Literary Supplement London. The reader is fascinated by a certainty of approaching doom.”Chicago Tribune”A short tale of much power and beauty. ”Of Mice and Men is a thriller, a gripping tale running to novelette length that you will not set down until it is finished. Mr. It is more than that; but it is that. In sure, raucous, vulgar Americanism, Steinbeck has touched the quick in his little story.”The New York Times“Brutality and tenderness mingle in these strangely moving pages
The last decades of his life were spent in New York City and Sag Harbor with his third wife, with whom he traveled widely. Today, more than thirty years after his death, he remains one of America's greatest writers and cultural figures.. Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962, and, in 1964, he was presented with the United