Steinbeck

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Contains: 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](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL23204W/Of_Mice_and_Men) (the complete novel) -- 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 Sea of Cortez. "Is" thinking and "living into" ; The pearl of La Paz ; Parable 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.

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John Steinbeck

27 February 1902 – 20 December 1968

John Steinbeck was an American writer. He wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel *The Grapes of Wrath* (1939) and the novella *Of Mice and Men* (1937). He wrote a total of 27 books, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and five collections of short stories. In 1962, Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature ([Source][1]). [1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck