| Details | | Publication Date: | 1986-11-01 | | Editor: | Pascal Covici |
Publisher's Note Collects a variety of the writings of Steinbeck, including selections from all his major works and his Nobel Prize acceptance speech.
Industry Reviews "One might go so far as to say that Steinbeck's popularity has been based on the special combination of the good and the bad in his work--as in the case of Dickens. On the one hand, in pieces like 'Molly Morgan' or 'The Moon Is Down', we find theatrical trickery in almost pure form, calculatingly paced and truly parodying the basic view that underlies the best work. On the other hand, in some of the stories, for instance, 'The Chrysamthemums,' or some of the pieces from 'The Pastures of Heaven', or 'The Red Pony', we find fiction which develops (from the central insight of the story) a kind of narrative honesty which does not submit to the temptation to go whoring after 'effects'." New York Times Book Review - Robert Penn Warren (08/22/1943)
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