A compilation containing a newly edited version of Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, is accompanied by The Harvest Gypsies, a 1936 report on migrant workers; The Long Valley, a collection of short stories; and The Log from the Sea of Cortez.[...]
For the first time in one volume, the early California writings of one of America's greatest novelists have been collected, including the seminal works, Tortilla Flat and Of Mice and Men, tracing his early growth and evolution. 20,000 first printing.[...]
"Surely his most interesting, plausibly his most memorable, and . . . arguably his best book" --The New York Times Book Review For John Steinbeck, who hated the telephone, letter-writing was a preparation for work and a natural way for him to communicate his thoughts on people he liked and hated; on[...]