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The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
Category: Fiction | Series: Puffin Classics
Jody Tiflin has the urge for rebellion, but he also wants to be loved. First, he is given a red pony, and is later promised the colt of a bay mare. Yet both gifts bring tragedy as well as joy, and Jody is taught not only about the harsh lessons of life, but also about the falliblity of adults.
The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
Category: Classics
Young Jody Tiflin lives on his father's California ranch. He is thrilled when his father gives him a red pony, and later promises him the colt of a bay mare. Both these gifts bring joy to Jodi's life - but tragedy soon follows. As Jodi begins to learn the harsh lessons of life and death, he starts to un ...Show more
The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
Category: Fiction
Jody Tiflin is a ten-year-old boy, living on his father's ranch. One day his father brings home a small pony. He's Jody's, if the boy will learn to feed, clean, stable and care for him. But Jody learns, through the colt, and through his other adventures on the ranch, that with responsibility can come sa ...Show more
The Short Novels of John Steinbeck by John Steinbeck
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions
Collected here for the first time in a deluxe paperback volume are six of John Steinbeck's most widely read and beloved novels-"Tortilla Flat, The Red Pony, Of Mice and Men, The Moon Is Down, Cannery Row," and "The Pearl." From Steinbeck's tale of commitment, loneliness, and hope in "Of Mice and Men," t ...Show more
The Vigilante by John Steinbeck
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
The papers all said he was a fiend. I read all the papers. That's what they all said.'One of America's greatest writers explores mob violence, voyeurism and betrayal in these unforgettable tales of Californian life.
The Wayward Bus by John Steinbeck
Category: Classic
Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of Americaas greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, his many works, beginning with the six shown here, will be published as black-spine Penguin Classics for the first time and will feature eye-ca ...Show more
The Wayward Bus by John Steinbeck
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The Wayward Bus travelled the backroads through the lush California countryside. Its driver was a man of the land - lusty, hot-blooded and uninhibited. On the bus was a girl who danced at stag parties, a travelling salesman strictly out for fun, a boy coming into manhood and a college girl pursuing her ...Show more
The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
From a swashbuckling pirate fantasy to a meditation on American moralityatwo classic Steinbeck novels make their black spine debuts IN AWARDING John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel committee stated that with "The Winter of Our Discontent," he had aresumed his position as an indep ...Show more
Thicker Than Water by Anne Cassidy; John Steinbeck
Category: Children's
In this brilliant reworking of Of Mice and Men, Lennie and George drift from town to town and dream of opening their own music shop. But Lennie has the mind of a child and accidents are never very far away. A tragic and beautifully-written, modern-day retelling of a classic for ages 12+
To A God Unknown by John Steinbeck
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
While fulfilling his dead father's dream of creating a prosperous farm in California, Joseph Wayne comes to believe that a magnificent tree on the farm embodies his father's spirit. His brothers and their families share in Joseph's prosperity and the farm flourishes - until one brother, scared by Joseph ...Show more
To a God Unknown by John Steinbeck
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
Ancient pagan beliefs, the great Greek epics, and the Bible all inform this extraordinary novel, which occupied Steinbeck for more than five difficult years. While fulfilling his dead father's dream of creating a prosperous farm in California, Joseph Wayne comes to believe that a magnificant tree on the ...Show more
Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin twentieth century classics
When Danny returns to Tortilla Flat in Monterey, California, after the First World War he moves into a small house left to him by his grandfather. One by one, various ne'er-do-wells are drawn to Danny's house - lured in part by the appeal of a rook over their heads, in part by Danny's generosity and the ...Show more