Publisher: Penguin Books
The Vigilante, John Steinbeck
'Everything was dead, everything unreal; the dark mob was made up of stiff lay-figures'
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Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation.
Title: Of Mice and Man
Original: Of Mice and Man
Category: Novella
Author: John Steinbeck
Publisher: Penguin Books
Year: 2017
Pgs: 128
Weight: 0.800 kg
ISBN: 978-0-241-98033-0
This book is in English
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They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation.
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