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Celebrating its 75th anniversary, John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men remains one of America's most widely read and beloved novels. 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. George and his simple-minded friend Lenny dream, as drifters will, of a place to call their own--a couple of acres and a few pigs, chickens, and rabbits back in Hill Country where land is cheap. 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 his work, "a kind of 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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PublisherPenguin Random House Audio Publishing Group

ISBN-10014242918x

ISBN-139780142429181

eBay Product ID (ePID)22038284172

Product Key Features

Book TitleOf Mice and Men

TopicClassics, Small Town & Rural, Literary

Publication Year2011

LanguageEnglish

GenreFiction

AuthorJohn Steinbeck

Book SeriesPenguin Audio Classics Ser.

FormatCompact Disc

Dimensions

Item Height0.5in

Item Length5.9in

Item Width5in

Item Weight3.8 Oz

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Intended AudienceTrade

Reviews" Of Mice and Men is a thriller, a gripping tale running to novelette length that you will not set down until it is finished. 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 reader is fascinated by a certainty of approaching doom." --Chicago Tribune "A short tale of much power and beauty. Mr. Steinbeck has contributed a small masterpiece to the modern tough-tender school of American fiction." --Times Literary Supplement [London]

Dewey Edition21

Grade fromTwelfth Grade

Number of Volumes3 Vols.

Dewey Decimal813/.5/2

Edition DescriptionUnabridged Edition