Celebrating its 75th anniversary, John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and
Men" remains one of America's most widely read and beloved novels.
Here is Steinbeck's dramatic adaptation of his novel-as-play, which
received the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play in
1937-1938 and has featured a number of actors who have played the
iconic roles of George and Lennie on stage and film, including
James Earl Jones, John Malkovich and Gary Sinise. From the Nobel
Prize-winning author of "The Grapes of Wrath" and "East of Eden,"
this classic story of an unlikely pair, two migrant workers in
California during the Great Depression who grasp for their American
Dream, profoundly touches readers and audiences alike. George and
his simple-minded friend Lenny dream, as drifters will, of a place
to call their own--a couple of acres and a few pigs, chickens, and
rabbits back in Hill Country where land is cheap. But after they
come to work on a ranch in the fertile Salinas Valley of
California, their hopes, like "the best laid schemes o'mice an'
men," begin to go awry.
"Of Mice and Men" also represents an experiment in form, as
Steinbeck described his work, "a kind of playable novel, written in
novel form but so scened and set that it can be played as it
stands." A rarity in American letters, it achieved remarkable
success as a novel, a Broadway play, and three acclaimed films.
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