John Steinbeck, born in Salinas, California, in 1902, grew up in a fertile agricultural valley, about twenty-five miles from the Pacific Coast. Both the valley and the coast would serve as settings for some of his best fiction. In 1919 he went to Stanford University, where he intermittently enrolled in literature and writing courses until he left in 1925 without taking a degree. During the next five years he supported himself as a laborer and journalist in New York City, all the time working on his first novel, Cup of Gold (1929).
After marriage and a move to Pacific Grove, he published two California books, The Pastures of Heaven (1932) and To a God Unknown (1933), and worked on short stories later collected in The Long Valley (1938). Popular success and financial security came only with Tortilla Flat (1935), stories about Monterey’s paisanos. A ceaseless experimenter throughout his career, Steinbeck changed courses regularly. Three powerful novels of the late 1930s focused on the California laboring class: In Dubious Battle (1936), Of Mice and Men (1937), and the book considered by many his finest, The Grapes of Wrath (1939). The Grapes of Wrath won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1939.
Early in the 1940s, Steinbeck became a filmmaker with The Forgotten Village (1941) and a serious student of marine biology with Sea of Cortez (1941). He devoted his services to the war, writing Bombs Away (1942) and the controversial play-novelette The Moon is Down (1942). Cannery Row (1945), The Wayward Bus (1948), another experimental drama, Burning Bright (1950), and The Log from the Sea of Cortez (1951) preceded publication of the monumental East of Eden (1952), an ambitious saga of the Salinas Valley and his own family’s history.
The last decades of his life were spent in New York City and Sag Harbor with his third wife, with whom he traveled widely. Later books include Sweet Thursday (1954), The Short Reign of Pippin IV: A Fabrication (1957), Once There Was a War (1958), The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Travels with Charley in Search of America (1962), America and Americans (1966), and the posthumously published Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters (1969), Viva Zapata! (1975), The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976), and Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath (1989).
Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962, and, in 1964, he was presented with the United States Medal of Freedom by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Steinbeck died in New York in 1968. Today, more than thirty years after his death, he remains one of America's greatest writers and cultural figures.
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Of Mice and Men 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
很薄的一本书,覆盖的人物不多,时间也很短,只有三天,情节也很简单,不像美剧24小时,每个小时都那么跌宕起伏,扣人心弦。可是放下书,心里沉甸甸的,灰暗和忧伤,久久挥之不去。 Lennie总是惊惶地问George,我还可以养兔子吗?是的,兔子。他念念不忘的就是那一窝未来的兔...
评分——读约翰-斯坦贝克《人鼠之间》 鲁迅说:“人生最苦痛的是梦醒了无路可走。做梦的人是幸福的;倘没有看出可以走的路,最要紧的是不要去惊醒他。”虽说如此,但梦被惊醒,很多时候由不得做梦的人,因而痛苦就无法避免。诺贝尔文学奖获得者约翰-斯坦贝克在其传世之作《人鼠之...
评分 评分读《人鼠之间》时,经常会想起美国的一些老福音歌曲:同样诉说尘世艰辛,追想“有一片应许的乐土”,而以“我们终会过死亡冷河”作为结局。不同的是,福音歌曲多半采取“上行”结构,而《人鼠之间》正好相反。 所谓“上行”结构,源自圣经诗篇里的敬拜诗,又称登殿诗:人们去圣...
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Over seventy-five years since its first publication, Steinbeck’s tale of commitment, loneliness, hope, and loss remains one of America’s most widely read and taught novels. An unlikely pair, George and Lennie, two migrant workers in California during the Great Depression, grasp for their American Dream. They hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own. When they land jobs on a ranch in the Salinas Valley, the fulfillment of their dream seems to be within their grasp. But even George cannot guard Lennie from the provocations, nor predict the consequences of Lennie's unswerving obedience to the things George taught him.
Of Mice and Men represents an experiment in form, which Steinbeck described as “a kind of playable novel, written in a 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. This edition features an introduction by Susan Shillinglaw, one of today’s leading Steinbeck scholars.
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.
人性的悲哀。
评分在香港看完的 看完以后久久不能平息 连带导致在和同行的人观光的两三天心情持续糟糕
评分很好看很好看很好看,一看就停不下来,到最后看哭了,哭得很惨。一个关于梦想破灭的故事,首尾呼应。George是需要Lennie的,互相离不开对方。正因为有Lennie在身边,George才没有和其他工人一样混日子,George需要一根胡萝卜吊在自己眼前,才能汲取力量前行。George最后杀了Lennie,George同时也杀了自己。结伴同行的时光,只会让随后的独行更加孤单落魄。
评分非常非常非常棒的小说。其中描写的人性角度引人深思。这本书让我深思,结局是好的还是坏的。难道那个年代注定这样吗⋯⋯
评分我真的觉得这个故事跟刘以达的那首《屎我系一督屎》太配了,带着小人物的愿望时常落空的那种心酸。
Of Mice and Men 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书