![]() Octavo, original cloth, original dust jacket. Both the text and the critically acclaimed 1937 Broadway play (which won the Drama Critics Circle Award for best play that year) made Steinbeck a household name.” ( American National Biography) “This ‘play-novelette,’ a book that intended to be both a novella and a script for a play, is a tightly drafted study of bindle stiffs whose dreams he intended to represent the universal longings for a home, ‘the earth longings of a Lennie who was not to represent insanity at all but the inarticulate and powerful yearning of all men,’ he wrote his agent. We got each other, that's what, that gives a hoot in hell about us." Lennie cried in triumph.įIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, SIGNED on the front free endpaper: “For Katherine Lowry / John Steinbeck”. ![]() They ain't got nobody in the worl' that gives a hoot in hell about 'em -" They make a little stake an' then they blow it in. ![]() Lennie said craftily, "Tell me like you done before." ![]()
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