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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. 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 characteristic interests: the tensions between town and country, laborers and owners, past and present. Included here are the O. Henry Prize-winning story "The Murder"; "The Chrysanthemums," perhaps Steinbeck's most challenging story, both personally and artistically; "Flight," "The Snake," "The White Quail," and the classic tales of "The Red Pony." With an introduction and notes by John H. Timmerman. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. 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.… (más)
El valle de Salinas, un espacio personal transferido a la categoría de metáfora de la existencia El largo valle al que hace referencia el título de esta colección de relatos es el valle de Salinas, ciudad natal de John Steinbeck: una sucesión de montañas, colinas y cañones en los que se alzan pequeños ranchos rodeados de anchas praderas, donde los seres humanos viven, aman, lloran, ríen, matan y mueren.
El largo valle al que hace referencia el título de esta colección de relatos es el valle de Salinas. Por las páginas desfilan esposas insatisfechas, granjeros tozudos cuyo horizonte es la próxima cosecha, pacíficos ciudadanos que acaban participando en linchamientos, agitadores comunistas, braceros de rancho y piadosas viejas damas, sin olvidar a una cerda herética que eludirá la matanza a la que está abocada su especie para convertirse en modelo de santidad. ( )
The high grey-flannel fog of winter closed off the Salinas Valley from the sky and from all the rest of the world.
La alta niebla invernal de franela gris cerraba el valle de Salinas al cielo y al resto del mundo.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Mamma said wisely, "A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man."
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
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. 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 characteristic interests: the tensions between town and country, laborers and owners, past and present. Included here are the O. Henry Prize-winning story "The Murder"; "The Chrysanthemums," perhaps Steinbeck's most challenging story, both personally and artistically; "Flight," "The Snake," "The White Quail," and the classic tales of "The Red Pony." With an introduction and notes by John H. Timmerman. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. 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.
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