Rank 81 of 100
Of Mice and Men
Synopsis
George and Lennie, itinerant ranch hands in Depression California, share a plan for a little land and the rabbits Lennie never stops mentioning. Steinbeck writes their bond in a landscape of men who have no one. The dream is ordinary, which is why its failure hurts.
Synopses are original catalog copy written for Every Book Ever, not publisher blurbs.
Catalogue card
- Year
- 1937
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Form
- Novella
- Genre
- Literary
- Audience
- Young adult
- Era
- 1900–1945
- Movement
- Social realism
- Series
- —
- Length
- About 107 pages
- Reported copies
- Among the most assigned American novellas
- Kind
- Fiction