| Description |
xlii, 692 pages ; 19 cm. |
| Series |
The Viking portable library |
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Viking portable library.
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| Bibliography |
Bibliography: page xlii. |
| Contents |
Introduction by Pascal Covici, Jr. -- Biographical and Bibliographical Notes -- From The Long Valley: Flight -- The Snake -- The Harness -- The Chrysanthemums -- From The Pastures of Heaven: Tularecito -- Molly Morgan -- Pat Humbert's -- From Tortilla Flat: Danny -- Pilon -- The Pirate -- The Treasure Hunt -- Tortillas and Beans -- From In Dubious Battle: A Future We Can't Foresee -- Of Mice and Men: The complete novel -- The Red Pony: The Gift -- The Great Mountains -- The Promise -- The Leader of the People -- From The Long Valley: Breakfast -- From The Grapes of Wrath: The Turtle -- "the Last Clear Definite Function of Man" -- Migrant People -- Life and Death -- Breakfast and Work -- Ma and Tom -- The Flood -- From Sea of Cortez: "Is" Thinking and "Living Intro" -- The Pearl of La Paz -- Parable of Laziness -- Differences -- "It Might Be So" -- From "About Ed Ricketts": "Knowing Ed Ricketts..." -- "Speculative Metaphysics" -- From Cannery Row: Frog Hunt -- From East of Eden: Adam and His Sons -- Choice and Responsibility -- Technology and a Technocrat -- Timshel -- Two Uncollected Stories: The Affair at 7, rue de M----- -- How Mr. Hogan Robbed a Bank -- From Travels With Charley in Search of America: People -- Texan Ostentation -- Southern Troubles -- Last Leg -- The Language of Awareness: From East of Eden -- Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech |
| Summary |
Selections from: The long valley; The pastures of heaven; Tortilla Flat; In Dubious Battle; The red pony; The long valley; The grapes of wrath; Sea of Cortez; "About Ed Ricketts;" Cannery Row; East of Eden; Travels with Charley. Also includes: Of Mice and Men (the complete novel) and Two Uncollected Stories. |
| Subject |
California -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Covici, Pascal, 1930-1997
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| Added Title |
Works. Selections. 1980
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| ISBN |
0517610639: $18.75 |
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9780517610633 |
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