Of mice and men

- Authors
- Steinbeck, John
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Tags
- ranch life , salinas river valley (calif.) , cowboys , literary criticism , 1902-1968 , steinbeck , people with mental disabilitie , men , classics , male friendship - fiction , general , literature - classics , psychological fiction , literary , foreign language study , cowboys - fiction , social science , male friendship , mentally handicapped , criticism , people with mental disabilities , literature: classics , fiction , western stories , men's studies , salinas river valley (calif.) - fiction , english as a second language , american , john , ranch life - fiction
- ISBN
- 9780140186420
- Date
- 1937-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.09 MB
- Lang
- en
While the powerlessness of the laboring class is a recurring theme in Steinbeck's work of the late 1930s, he narrowed his focus when composing Of Mice and Men (1937), creating an intimate portrait of two men facing a world marked by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy, and callousness. But though the scope is narrow, the theme is universal: a friendship and a shared dream that makes an individual's existence meaningful. Of Mice and Men also represents an experiment in form, as Steinbeck described his work, "a kind of a playable novel, written in novel form but so scened and set that it can be played as it stands." A rarity in American letters, it achieved remarkable success as a novel, a Broadway play, and three acclaimed films.
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