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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.

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...

Sydney

04-12

写得太好了。第四章安排的太妙，配角形象在短短一章内全部丰富立体起来，甚至把几个不同群体的集体心理都含而不露、不留痕迹地衬托了出来。首尾的呼应仿佛传达出一种预言式的不可抗拒的力量。Lennie不只是一个美国梦式的幻影，从他的身上被映射出的关于群体、种族、个人和时代的问题太多了，他就像一块透明的水晶，折射出被裹挟在命运中的每个人干净、坚硬、冰冷、扭曲、脆弱的那些部分，最后结局也是破碎。“美国梦”其实就是“命运”的同义词吧，既是时代的共同命运，也是个人的命运。命运就是一场无法打破的循环的悲剧。

淡定哥走路带风

02-27

一只老鼠比不上一个人的价值？因为我们已失去太多，很多东西已不能满足我们庞大的私欲。

vanessa

02-15

又读了一遍，不到半天就看完了。第一遍读只是撸了个剧情，第二遍读更有情感触动，也发掘了很多写作手法。这个故事很符合悲剧的各种标准，比如悲剧的不可避免性，Lennie根深蒂蒂的性格和智力缺陷让他对George很依赖，而George又何尝不依赖Lennie让他在这个冰冷的环境中存留最后一点人性。而且悲剧还发生在梦想最接近现实的时候，造一个美丽的梦再立即撕给你看。此外对其他角色也产生了更多的同理心，Candy和那只相依为命的老狗，和被困在女性和妻子这个角色中极度寂寞的Curley‘s wife等。此外，全篇有好多伏笔和对照，且很有舞台剧特色，确实是Steinbeck很实验性的作品。这个企鹅版本前面的introduction写的也超好，非常加深对作品和作者的理解。

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