![]() ![]() I found this to be an enjoyable read but it didn’t connect with me the same way Cannery Row did so it won’t be etched into my mind quite as boldly. ![]() Even though the absurdities stand out and felt straight out of a Monty Python film, the book also gets the emotional juices flowing as it goes along using comradery as the device. Reminiscent of Cannery Row, the book is centered around a group of friends in Monterey and demonstrates Steinbeck’s style of humor wonderfully. The story follows a group of friends, made up mostly of thieves and former prisoners, who out of the kindness of their hearts get into the most absurd situations. ![]() It’s the best that I’ve encountered since starting at the beginning of his collection. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.Tortilla Flat is recognized as Steinbeck’s first critical and commercial success and rightfully so. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. This edition features an introduction by Thomas Fensch.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. At the center of the tale is Danny, whose house, like Arthur’s castle, becomes a gathering place for men looking for adventure, camaraderie, and a sense of belonging-men who fiercely resist the corrupting tide of honest toil and civil rectitude.Īs Nobel Prize winner Steinbeck chronicles their deeds-their multiple lovers, their wonderful brawls, their Rabelaisian wine-drinking-he spins a tale as compelling and ultimately as touched by sorrow as the famous legends of the Round Table, which inspired him. “Steinbeck is an artists and he tells the stories of these lovable thieves and adulterers with a gentle and poetic purity of heart and of prose.” -New York Herald TribuneĪdopting the structure and themes of the Arthurian legend, John Steinbeck created a “Camelot” on a shabby hillside above the town of Monterey, California, and peopled it with a colorful band of knights. ![]()
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