The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: Critical Essays with a Checklist to Steinbeck Criticism

by Jackson J. Benson

Book Overview

The Grapes of Wrath is generally considered Steinbeck's masterpiece, but the short novel was the form he most frequently turned to and most consciously theorized about, and with constant experimentation he made the form his own. Much of the best-and the worst-of his writing appears in his short novels. This collection reviews what has been categorized as the "good" and the "bad," looking beyond the careless labeling that has characterized a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822309947
• ISBN13: 9780822309949
• Release Date: November 1989
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.0"