by John Steinbeck · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141023571
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«Of Mice and Men» is the novel by John Steinbeck, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (128 pages, in English).
George and Lennie, migrant workers, travel through California during the Great Depression dreaming of owning their own farm. Lennie, huge and childlike, cannot control his strength, and his actions endanger the dream and the friendship that binds them. The story addresses loneliness, the harshness of seasonal work and the fragility of the American dream.
The work was originally published in 1937. The book belongs to the Penguin Modern Classics collection.
A short classic of American literature, frequently read in schools and literature programmes.
John Ernst Steinbeck was an American writer and novelist. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception". He has been called "a giant of American letters". One of the most widely read authors of the 20th century. He was also an independent journalist and war correspondent during World War II and the Vietnam War.
