John Steinbeck

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Möss och människor utspelas på landsbygden i Kalifornien någon gång under depressionen 19291939. Boken har dramatiserats och uppförts som teaterpjäs runt hela världen. Romanen har också filmatiserats flera gånger. Möss och människor handlar om George Milton och Lennie Small. Lennie är förståndshandikappad och blir omhändertagen av sin bäste vän, George. Lennie och George försörjer sig genom att arbeta på olika gårdar. Den senaste gården de arbetade på fick de båda fly från. Lennie gillar att smeka mjuka saker och han blir intresserad av frun på gårdens röda bomullsklänning. Han börjar smeka och ta i klänningen, frun blir förskräckt och börjar skrika. Lennie blir då rädd och håller tag i klänningen ännu hårdare. När han väl släpper frun så springer hon till sin make och berättar att Lennie våldtog henne. George och Lennie ger sig av från gården hastigast och flyr till en stad söderut. De hittar ett nytt arbete på en annan gård och de bestämmer sig för att ta det. Natten innan de ska börja arbeta på gården sover de under bar himmel i skogen och pratar om den egna gård de fantiserar om att skaffa. Lennie halar upp en död mus ur fickan och börjar smeka den, George blir lite arg på honom och slänger musen i en sjö. Nästa morgon tar de anställning vid gården, de får varsin säng och en liten hylla att ha sina saker på. De träffar de andra männen på gården och George förklarar att Lennie inte är riktigt klar i huvudet men att han arbetar bra och är stark som en oxe. George blir ganska snabbt vän med Slim, mannen som är chef över hästarna. Lennie blir vän med den enarmade gamlingen Candy. De båda träffar sedan på Curley, basens son, som har varit boxare och direkt fattar misstycke för Lennie. När arbetarna ger sig av till stan så talar Lennie och Candy om Georges och Lennies dröm, att köpa ett landområde och bruka det. De skulle inte ta order från någon och Lennie skulle få sköta kaninerna. Candy vill också vara med på detta så han erbjuder sina besparingar på 350 dollar. Lennie och George går med på detta. De andra arbetarna beskyller på Candys hund för att lukta illa och skjuter den i nacken. Slim erbjuder därför en av sina hundvalpar till Candy, men han tackar nej. Lennie får hundvalpen istället, han blir jättelycklig och smeker den direkt när han får en ledig stund på gården. En dag talar Lennie med Curleys fru och Curley blir förbannad på Lennie. Curley går på Lennie och börjar boxa honom i magen medan Lennie står där och tittar undrande på George. George skriker åt honom att slå till Curley. Lennie tittar på Curley och tar tag i hans hand och klämmer den i sin näve. Curley bryter varenda ben i hela handen, men lovar att inte berätta om det för någon. En tid senare sitter Lennie med sin hundvalp död i famnen. Curleys fru kommer och sätter sig och talar med honom. Efter ett tag säger frun att Lennie får smeka hennes hår, men sedan tycker hon att han rufsar till det och skriker åt honom att sluta. Lennie blir rädd och håller hårdare. Frun skriker högre och han håller för hennes mun och skakar om henne tills hon dör av att hennes nacke bryts. Lennie blir rädd och springer ut i skogen där han och George var innan de började arbeta på gården. Candy var den första att se den döda kroppen, och ropar dit de andra. De förstår att det är Lennie som har dödat henne.

Depeches du Vietnam rassemble la derniere serie de reportages de guerre de John Steinbeck. Inedit en France, cet ouvrage reprend les chroniques ecrites a partir de 1966 pour le magazine Newsday par celui qui recut le Prix Pulitzer en 1940 pour les Raisins de la Colere et le prix Nobel de litterature en 1962. John Steinbeck, a 64 ans, est deja un homme malade et fatigue - il mourra deux ans plus tard - quand il part pour couvrir le conflit qui mine l'Amerique. Mais il a beau bien connaitre la guerre - il a suivi les boys en Europe en 1943 pour le New York Herald Tribune et a ete blesse en Afrique du Nord - il est deroute par ce qu'il decouvre: une guerre qui ne comporte ni front, ni arrieres , ecrit-il. Embarquant sur les vedettes qui sillonnent les deltas, volant a bord des helicopteres Huey, il retrouve egalement son fils, futur ecrivain lui-aussi, qui a choisi de s'engager. Est-ce l'une des raisons pour lesquelles Steinbeck, dans ses depeches, soutient la guerre menee par l'Amerique? S'il emettait des reserves en prive sur cette dangereuse aventure, il serre les rangs derriere la politique suivie par le president Lyndon Johnson, ce que lui reprocheront beaucoup d'intellectuels. Lui le defenseur des faibles et des opprimes, l'ecrivain social qui en son temps fut soupconne d'etre communiste est devenu belliciste mais est surtout desespere que ces merveilleuses troupes n'apportent pas une victoire rapide. Le traducteur Traducteur prolifique des grands noms de la litterature anglo-saxonne (Bret Easton Ellis, Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, Francis Scott Fitzgerald?), Pierre Guglielmina a recemment traduit aux Belles Lettres, de Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Une vie a soi (Gout des idees, 2011).

The Portable Steinbeck is a grand sampling of John Steinbeck's most important and popular works. Here are the complete novels of Mice and Men and The Red Pony, together with self-contained excerpts from several longer novels, the text of his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, a fascinating introduction by Pascal Covici, Jr., son of Steinbeck's longtime editor, and brand new introduction from leading Steinbeck scholar Susan Shillinglaw that puts Steinbeck in the context of the 21st century.

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A collectible 50th anniversary deluxe edition featuring an updated introduction by Jay Parini and first edition cover art and illustrated maps of Steinbeck's route by Don Freeman A Penguin Classic In September 1960, John Steinbeck embarked on a journey across America. He felt that he might have lost touch with the country, with its speech, the smell of its grass and trees, its color and quality of light, the pulse of its people. To reassure himself, he set out on a voyage of rediscovery of the American identity, accompanied by a distinguished French poodle named Charley; and riding in a three-quarter-ton pickup truck named Rocinante. His course took him through almost forty states: northward from Long Island to Maine; through the Midwest to Chicago; onward by way of Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana (with which he fell in love), and Idaho to Seattle, south to San Francisco and his birthplace, Salinas; eastward through the Mojave, New Mexico, Arizona, to the vast hospitality of Texas, to New Orleans and a shocking drama of desegregation; finally, on the last leg, through Alabama, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey to New York. Travels with Charley in Search of America is an intimate look at one of America's most beloved writers in the later years of his life--a self-portrait of a man who never wrote an explicit autobiography. Written during a time of upheaval and racial tension in the South--which Steinbeck witnessed firsthand--Travels with Charley is a stunning evocation of America on the eve of a tumultuous decade. This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition also features French flaps and deckle-edged paper. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Twenty-seven years in the making (1940–67), this tapestry of nearly two hundred American popular and protest songs was created by three giants of performance and musical research: Alan Lomax, indefatigable collector and preserver; Woody Guthrie, performer and prolific balladeer; and Pete Seeger, entertainer and educator who has introduced three generations of Americans to their musical heritage. In his afterword, Pete Seeger recounts the long history of collecting and publishing this anthology of Depression-era, union-hopeful, and New Deal melodies. With characteristic modesty, he tells us what's missing and what's wrong with the collection. But more important, he tells us what's right and why it still matters, noting songs that have become famous the world over: "Union Maid," "Which Side Are You On?," "Worried Man Blues," "Midnight Special," and "Tom Joad.""Now, at the turn of the century, the millennium, what's the future of these songs?" he asks. "Music is one of the things that will save us. Future songwriters can learn from the honesty, the courage, the simplicity, and the frankness of these hard-hitting songs. And not just songwriters. We can all learn." In addition to 123 photographs and 195 songs, this edition features an introductory note by Nora Guthrie, the daughter of Woody Guthrie and overseer of the Woody Guthrie Foundation.

Gathered in this important volume are seven newspaper articles on migrant farm workers that John Steinbeck wrote for The San Francisco News in 1936, three years before The Grapes of Wrath. With the inquisitiveness of an investigative reporter and the emotional power of a novelist in his prime, Steinbeck toured the squatters' camps and Hoovervilles of California. The Harvest Gypsies gives us an eyewitness account of the horrendous Dust Bowl migration, a major event in California history, and provides the factual foundation for Steinbeck’s masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath. Included are twenty-two photographs by Dorothea Lange and others, many of which accompanied Steinbeck's original articles.

De ratones y hombres narra la historia de Lennie, un deficiente mental, y su companero y angel de la guarda George, dos braceros al borde de la indigencia. Contratados en una granja regentada por un ex boxeador, la insatisfecha esposa del patron pone en serios aprietos a Lennie, que la mata accidentalmente y huye al bosque. Un conmovedor canto a la amistad y sobre todo una novela intensa con unos dialogos ejemplares y perfectamente construidos, de la que ningun lector podra olvidar su desenlace."

Two devastating short novels adapted for the stage by Steinbeck himselfA Penguin Classic This Penguin Classics edition celebrates Steinbeck's dramatic adaptations of his most powerful short novels, Of Mice and Men and The Moon Is Down, featuring a foreword by award-winning actor James Earl Jones. Of Mice and Men represents an experiment in form - as Steinbeck put it, "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. Of Mice and Men received the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play in 1937-1938. A number of acclaimed actors have interpreted the iconic roles of George and Lennie for stage and screen, including James Earl Jones, John Malkovich and Gary Sinise. The Moon Is Down uncovers profound, often unsettling truths about war and human nature. It tells the story of a peaceable town taken by enemy troops, and had an extraordinary impact as Allied propaganda in Nazi-occupied Europe. This Penguin Classics edition of the theatrical adaptations of Steinbeck's two classic short novels is essential to actors, playwrights, filmmakers and directors studying the dramatic work of the Nobel Prize winning author of The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

A magnificent volume of short novels and an essential World War II report from one of America's great twentieth-century writers A Penguin Classic On the heels of the enormous success of his masterwork The Grapes of Wrath and at the height of the American war effort John Steinbeck, one of the most prolific and influential literary figures of his generation, wrote Bombs Away, a nonfiction account of his experiences with U. S. Army Air Force bomber crews during World War II. Now, for the first time since its original publication in 1942, Penguin Classics presents this exclusive edition of Steinbeck's introduction to the then-nascent U. S. Army Air Force and its bomber crew--the essential core unit behind American air power that Steinbeck described as "the greatest team in the world." For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Occupied by enemy troops, a small, peaceable town comes face-to-face with evil imposed from the outside--and betrayal born within the close-knit community A Penguin Classic In this masterful tale set in Norway during World War II, Steinbeck explores the effects of invasion on both the conquered and the conquerors. As he delves into the emotions of the German commander and the Norwegian traitor, and depicts the spirited patriotism of the Norwegian underground, Steinbeck uncovers profound, often unsettling truths about war--and about human nature. Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck's self-described "celebration of the durability of democracy" had an extraordinary impact as Allied propaganda in Nazi-occupied Europe. Despite Axis efforts to suppress it (in Fascist Italy, mere possession of the book was punishable by death), The Moon is Down was secretly translated into French, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian and Russian; hundreds of thousands of copies circulated throughout Europe, making it by far the most popular piece of propaganda under the occupation. Few literary works of our time have demonstrated so triumphantly the power of ideas in the face of cold steel and brute force. This edition features an introduction by Donald V. Coers. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The collaboration of two friends--one a novelist, one a marine biologist--produced a volume in which fascinating popular science is woven into a narrative of man's dreams, his ideals, and his accomplishments through the centuries. Sea of Cortez is one of those rare books that are all things to all readers. Actually the record of a brief collecting expedition in the lonely Gulf of California, it will be science to the scientist, philosophy to the philosopher, and to the average man an adventure in living and thinking. The teeming and wildly competitive world of the sand flats is seen in terms of history, politics, ethics, and sociology; a starfish is important, not only because it is a new variety, but because it is essential to the delicate balance of the whole region in which it is found. Steinbeck and Ricketts are the opposite of "pure" scientists: it is not only their work that fascinates them, but the complicated and enormously exciting implications of that work. Sea of Cortez is a book to be read and remembered on two levels. It is a journey through a remote and beautiful corner of the world, a diary filled with the daily excitements and triumphs of skillful and energetic men. It is also an invitation to see the world anew from a fresh vantage point and perhaps with a broader and more understanding spirit.

The novelist who wrote The Grapes of Wrath and the director who produced Crisis and Lights Out in Europe combined their superb talents to tell the story of the coming of modern medicine to the natives of Mexico. There have been several notable examples of this pen-camera method of narration, but The Forgotten Village is unique among them in that Steinbeck wrote the text before a single picture was shot. The book and the movie from which The Forgotten Village was made have a continuity and a dramatic growth not to be found in typical documentary films of the time. From this wealth of pictures, 136 photographs were selected for their intrinsic beauty and for the graceful harmony with which they accompany Steinbeck's text. This new script-photograph technique of narration conveys its ideas with unexcelled brilliance and immediacy. In the hands of such master storytellers as Steinbeck and Kline, it makes the reader catch his breath.

Steinbeck's only work of fantasy literature--in a deluxe edition with a foreword by Christopher Paolini, New York Times bestselling author of Eragon, Eldest and Brisingr A Penguin Classic Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur was the first book that John Steinbeck truly enjoyed reading as a child. Fascinated by Arthurian tales of adventure, knighthood, honor and friendship, in addition to the challenging nuances of the original Anglo-Saxon language, Steinbeck set out to render these stories faithfully and with keen animation for a modern audience. Here then is Steinbeck's modernization of the adventure of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, featuring the icons of Arthurian legend--including King Arthur, Merlin, Morgan le Fay, the incomparable Queen Guinevere, and Arthur's purest knight, Sir Lancelot of the Lake. These enduring tales of loyalty and betrayal in the time of Camelot flicker with the wonder and magic of an era past but not forgotten. Steinbeck's retelling will capture the attention and imagination of legions of Steinbeck fans, including those who love Arthurian romances, as well as countless readers of science fiction and fantasy literature. This edition features a new foreword by Christopher Paolini, author of the number-one New York Times bestselling novels Eragon, Eldest, and Brisingr. It also includes the letters John Steinbeck wrote to his literary agent, Elizabeth Otis, and to Chase Horton, the original editor of this volume. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.