The portable Steinbeck / revised, selected, and introduced by Pascal Covici, Jr.

Author: Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.

Imprint:New York : Penguin Books, 1976.

Descriptionxlii, 692 p. ; 20 cm.

Note:First ed. published in 1943 under title: Steinbeck.

Note:Introduction / Pascal Covici, Jr. -- from THE LONG VALLEY: Flight. - The snake. - The harness. - The chrysanthemums. -- from THE PASTURES OF HEAVEN: Tularecito. - Molly Morgan. - Pat Humbert's. -- from TORTILLA FLAT: Danny. - Pilon. - The pirate. - The treasure hunt. - Tortillas and beans. -- from IN DUBIOUS BATTLE: A future we can't foresee. -- Of mice and men. -- THE RED PONY: The gift. - The great mountains. - The promise. - The leader of the people. -- from THE LONG VALLEY: Breakfast. -- from THE GRAPES OF WRATH: The turtle. - 'The last clear definite function of man' - Migrant people. - Life and death. - Breakfast and work. - Ma and Tom. - The flood. -- from THE SEA OF CORTEZ: 'Is' thinking and 'Living into' - The pearl of La Paz. - Parables of laziness. - Differences. - 'It might be so' -- from ABOUT ED RICKETTS: 'Knowing Ed Ricketts...' - 'Speculative metaphysics' -- from CANNERY ROW: Frog hunt. -- from EAST OF EDEN: Adam and his sons. - Choice and responsibility. - Technology and a technocrat. - Timshel. -- TWO UNCOLLECTED STORIES: The affair at 7, rue de M----. - How Mr. Hogan robbed a bank. -- from TRAVELS WITH CHARLEY IN SEARCH OF AMERICA: People. - Texan ostentation. - Southern troubles. - Last leg. -- THE LANGUAGE OF AWARENESS: from East of Eden. - Nobel Prize acceptance speech.

Bibliography Note:Bibliography: p. xlii.

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