Books

New York: Covici Friede,, 1937. Trouble with mice is you always kill 'em First edition, first printing, of Steinbeck's first "play novelette", an experimental literary form intended to be both a novella and a script for a play. First staged on Broadway on 23 November 1937, the story won the Drama Critics Circle Award for best play. Based on Steinbeck's experience working with migrant farm workers in the 1910s, the novella is titled after Robert Burns's poem "To a Mouse". The book was "one of the first in a long line of 'experiments', a word he often used to identify a forthcoming project... [It] 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. Both the text and the critically acclaimed 1937 Broadway play... made Steinbeck a household name, assuring his popularity…

Of Mice and Men is a novella written by John Steinbeck. Published in 1937, it narrates the story of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers during the Great Depression in California.