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title: "The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Kindle Edition"
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# The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Kindle Edition

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- **What is this?** The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Kindle Edition by john steinbeck
- **How much does it cost?** ¥3081 with free shipping
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## Customer Reviews

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    Just read the first 2 stories and really enjoyed them.
  

*by S***S on Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2022*

Loved the stories.

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    Good book
  

*by S***N on Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2022*

I like to read

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    Proof that Steinbeck is American gold
  

*by J***T on Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2014*

With over 1650 reviews already (July 2014), it's hard to know where to being, or if saying anything will be of any consequence. But it seems the beginning of this appreciation has been given to me: most of the reviews seem to be from students or teachers who read one of the six novellas her, and reviewed that one. I have read them all.When I was in high school, I always got booted into advanced English classes, so while everyone else was reading of Mice and Men or The Pearl, I was reading something contemporary and "advanced." So I ended up missing out reading Steinbeck almost entirely (with the exception of Travels with Charlie, which was hot in my sophomore year and considered "cutting edge.") But over time I came to be familiar with most of these tales. There are films of all of them but The Pearl, of Mice and Men is frequently presented theatrically on the stage (and there's a new opera based on it), and I've know the Copland music for The Red Pony since I became a classical music fan in my teens.So I discovered that Penguin put these little gems together in a single volume and resolved to read it cover to cover this summer, in my early 60s. It has been an adventure, discovering how Steinbeck's style became more economical, more compressed over the critical years from 1933 (The Red Pony, when he was 31) until 1947 (The Pearl, when he was 45). He's attracted to strong stories about ordinary people and, from the very beginning, applies an academic craftsman's took kit to issues such as narrative arc and pacing. It's common to shrug him off as an American socialist, campaigning on behalf of the poor during the years of the Great Depression and World War II, but he is (1) not alone among American artists in that regard, and (2) so much more than that.The big surprise, by the way, is The Moon Is Down, an unexpected parable set in Europe early in World War II. I read a plea for sanity into the book, a plea for distance and objectivity in the face of the imperatives inherent in unrelenting evil bent on conquest.In the end, and with an eye on all the amazon.com reviews focused on one or another of the early novellas, my plea is that any potential reader sit down with the book, open it to the first page, and don't stop reading until the last. It's an amazing experience, one of those "Aha!" moments on why he was famous in the '40s and '50s and why he will be an enduring name in American literature in the future (pacem The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden).

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