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The Long Valley is a collection of short fiction by John Steinbeck. Most of the stories appeared originally in literary periodicals, and were first collected by Viking Press in 1938.
The Long Valley goes from the mountains east of Salinas to Monterey and the ocean on the central coast of CA. Even these early stories show he is a great writer. He has a knack of making the complex simple so that it’s well understood.
A Penguin Classic First published in 1938, this volume of stories collected with the encouragement of his longtime editor Pascal Covici serves as a wonderful introduction to the work of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck.
Steinbeck's The Long Valley is comprised of eleven unrelated short stories and The Red Pony series. A few primary themes in The Long Valley are loneliness, emotional isolation, mob mentality, and violence.
Aug 1, 1995 · Set in the beautiful Salinas Valley of California, where simple people farm the land and struggle to find a place for themselves in the world, these stories reflect Steinbeck’s...
The story opens with a description of the surrounding Salinas Valley and narrows in on Elisa Allen pruning last year's chrysanthemums as she notices Henry talking with two men in business suits. Elisa, who is thirty-five, is described in masculine terms.
Oct 7, 2011 · The long valley by Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968. Publication date 2000 Topics Large type books Publisher Thorndike, Me. : G.K. Hall Collection ...
