Portable Steinbeck (Guillaud Miniatures)
Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
Published: May 7, 1986
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 692
ISBN-13: 9780517610633
Subjects: Non-Classifiable; Sale Books; Nonfiction - General; Short stories; Literature: Classics
Table of contents: title: Introduction. The twenty-first-century portable Steinbeck by Susan Shillinglaw ; Introduction to the 1971 portable Steinbeck by Pascal Covici, Jr. --; title: From The long valley. Flight ; The snake ; The harness ; The chrysanthemums --; title: From The pastures of heaven. Tularecito ; Molly Morgan ; Pat Humbert's --; title: From Tortilla Flat. Danny ; Pilon ; The pirate ; The treasure hunt ; Tortillas and beans --; title: From In dubious battle. A future we can't foresee --; title: Of mice and men (the complete novel) --; title: The red pony. The gift ; The great mountains ; The promise ; The leader of the people --; title: From The long valley. Breakfast --; title: 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 --; title: From Sea of Cortez. "Is" thinking and "living into" ; The pearl of La Paz ; Parable of laziness ; Differences ; "It might be so" --; title: From "About Ed Ricketts." "Knowing Ed Ricketts ..." ; "Speculative metaphysics" --; title: From Cannery Row. Frog hunt --; title: From East of Eden. Adam and his sons ; Choice and responsibility ; Technology and a technocrat ; Timshel --; title: Two uncollected stories. The affair at 7, rue de M --; title: ; How Mr. Hogan robbed a bank --; title: From Travels with Charley in search of America. People ; Texan ostentation ; Southern troubles ; Last leg --; title: The language of awareness. From East of Eden ; Nobel prize acceptance speech.