Of mice and men read out loud

Steinbeck tells of two ranch hands who drift from job to job, always one stepahead of the law and a few dollars from the poorhouse. A Mexican pearl-fisher finds a pearl of great value--far more than what he needs to pay the doctor to save his child's life. But the pearl brings only evil and tragedy. This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families Here is Steinbeck's tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society, dependent on one another for both physical and emotional survival This novel - set in the California apple country - portrays a strike by migrant workers that metamorphoses from principled defiance into blind fanaticism Adopting the structure and themes of the Arthurian legend, Steinbeck created a Camelot on a shabby hillside above the town of Monterey, California, and peopled it with a colorful band of knights

Search the history of over billion web pages on the Internet. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher , except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review to be Printed in a magazine or newspaper. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool. On the sandy bank under the trees the leaves lie deep and so crisp that a lizard makes a great skitter- ing if he runs among them. There is a path through the willows and among the sycamores, a path beaten hard by boys coming down from the ranches to swim in the deep pool, and beaten hard by tramps who come wearily down from the highway in the evening to jungle-up near water.