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'A red pony colt was looking at him out of the stall. Its tense ears were forward and a light of disobedience was in its eyes. Its coat was rough and thick as an Airedale's fur and its mane was long and tangled'. 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 sacrifice and pain. Joy may swiftly turn to tragedy. And he also discover that the simplicities of childhood must eventually turn into the complications of adulthood. "The Red Pony" is Steinbeck's brilliant, and sometimes brutal, celebration of adolescence

Kino is a desperately poor Mexican-pearl diver. But when he finds 'The Pearl of the World' he believes that his life will be magically transformed. Obsessed by his dreams, Kino is blind to the greed, fear and even violence the pearl arouses in his neighbours - and himself. This is a haunting and timeless tale of wealth and the evil it can bring.

Etats-Unis, années 1930. Lennie et George, deux ouvriers agricoles, traversent la Californie et s'arrêtent dans un ranch pour y travailler. Ils n'ont qu'un rêve : réunir assez d'argent pour posséder

Collected here for the first time in a deluxe paperback volume are six of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbecks most widely read and beloved short novelsTortilla Flat, The Red Pony, Of Mice and Men, The Moon Is Down, Cannery Row and The Pearl. From Steinbecks tale of commitment, loneliness, and hope in Of Mice and Men, to his tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of Monterey society in Cannery Row, to The Pearls mythic examination of the fallacy of the American dream, Steinbeck created stories that were realistic, rugged, and imbued with energy and resilience.

Kino finds a large pearl, which he thinks will save his family from poverty. But the pearl brings misfortune and changes the life of the family forever.

“Una de las novelas esenciales de Steinbeck.” NICK HORNBY.“En la escritura de Steinbeck siempre hay algo sorprendentemente mágico.” CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT, THE NEW YORK TIMES.En las colinas de Mon

Narra este libro la vida de los distintos vecinos del valle así llamado, que se localiza junto a Salinas (Monterrey), el escenario habitual de sus narraciones. Unas historias a veces humorísticas, otras dramaticas, pero todas ellas de un nivel literario que parece hoy en dia inalcanzable. Una intensa experiencia lectora.

Distinguida con el Premio Pulitzer en 1940," Las uvas de la ira" describe el drama de la emigración de los componentes de la familia Joad, que, obligados por el polvo y la sequía, se ven obligados a abandonar sus tierras, junto con otros miles de personas de Oklahoma y Texas, rumbo a la tierra prometida de California. Alli, sin embargo, las expectativas de este ejercito de desposeidos no se veran cumplidas. Entre las versiones cinematograficas que ha conocido esta novela destaca la memorable protagonizada por Henry Fonda y dirigida por John Ford.

"Vi si narra la vicenda che porta alla rovina una famiglia di contadini, i Wayne, che si trasferiscono dal Vermont in California nella speranza di trovare terre migliori, ma dopo un breve periodo di prosperita la siccita li riduce in rovina. Il capofamiglia, che ha elaborato una intensa percezione religiosa della natura e della fertilita, decide cosi di compiere un sacrificio mistico alla madre-terra suicidandosi e versando nel terreno il suo sangue. A quel punto, finalmente, arrivera la pioggia. Il titolo, che letteralmente andrebbe tradotto ""A un dio sconosciuto"", e una citazione dagli Atti degli Apostoli, la dove Saulo (San Paolo) va ad Atene per convertire gli ateniesi, e avendo notato che la citta ha eretto un''ara per ciascun dio conosciuto e perfino un''ara dedicata ""A un dio sconosciuto"", inizia la sua orazione nell''Aeropago ateniese dicendo appunto: ""Ho trovato un''ara con l''iscrizione ''al Dio sconosciuto''. Colui che voi adorate senza conoscere, io ve l''annunzio."" (Atti 17,23) "

The Pearl is Steinbeck's flawless parable about wealth and the evil it can bring. When Kino, an Indian pearl-diver, finds 'the pearl of the world' he believes that his life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana in church and their little boy, Coyotito, will be able to attend school. Obsessed by his dreams, Kino is blind to the greed, fear and even violence the pearl arouses in him and his neighbours. Written with haunting and lyrical simplicity, The Pearl sets the values of the civilized world against those of the primitive and finds them tragically inadequate.