All George and Lennie have is each other and a dream: a small piece of land they can call their own. As drifters moving from job to job, the two friends — one sharp and watchful, the other childlike in his enormous strength — eventually land work on a ranch in California’s Salinas Valley. Yet the dream proves fragile. Lennie’s struggles against cruelty, misunderstanding and jealousy tip toward catastrophe, and he becomes undone by the very power he cannot control. Tackling universal themes of friendship and shared vision while giving voice to America’s lonely and dispossessed, Of Mice and Men remains Steinbeck’s most enduring work, celebrated as a novel, a Broadway play and the basis of three acclaimed films.
ISBN 13: 9780141185101
Author: Mr John Steinbeck
