The Portable Steinbeck

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Contains: 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](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL23204W/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 into" ; 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.

subjects: Social life and customs,  Western stories,  Fiction,  Manners and customs,  Labor Trilogy,  psychological fiction,  Male friendship,  Goal (Psychology),  Vida ranchera,  Men,  People with mental disabilities,  Classic Literature,  Ranch life,  Drifters,  Retrasados mentales,  Vaqueros,  Friendship,  Amistad entre hombres,  Cowboys,  Ficción,  Literary,  Small Town & Rural,  Classics,  Fiction, westerns,  California, fiction,  American fiction (fictional works by one author),  Children's fiction,  American literature,  Short stories

People: George Milton,  Lennie Small

Places: California,  Salinas River Valley,  Salinas

Times: 1930s,  20th century