人鼠之间 – Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

莱尼身高两米，力气大得吓人，但心智像个孩子。

乔治从小和他一起长大，是他唯一的朋友。乔治带着莱尼到处打零工糊口。莱尼单纯善良，可常常闯下大祸。莱尼每次闯祸，乔治就必须带着他逃亡，永无休止地流浪。

乔治和莱尼有一个卑微的梦，希望有一天可以存够钱买一小块地。他们可以在属于自己的小天地里种种菜，养鸡养猪，养莱尼最心爱的兔子。他们可以不必再流浪。

他们又流浪到一座农场。这一次，永无休止的流浪终于到了尽头，梦想也到了尽头。乔治终于帮莱尼找到一个地方。在那里，莱尼永远不会再闯祸，永远不会再受伤害，永远不需要再逃亡……

The compelling story of two outsiders striving to find their place in an unforgiving world.

Drifters in search of work, George and his simple-minded friend Lennie have nothing in the world except each other and a dream — a dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventually they find work on a ranch in California’s Salinas Valley, but their hopes are doomed as Lennie, struggling against extreme cruelty, misunderstanding and feelings of jealousy, becomes a victim of his own strength.

Tackling universal themes such as the friendship of a shared vision, and giving voice to America’s lonely and dispossessed, Of Mice and Men has proved one of Steinbeck’s most popular works, achieving success as a novel, a Broadway play and three acclaimed films.

John Steinbeck III was an American writer. He wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939 and the novella Of Mice and Men, published in 1937. In all, he wrote twenty-five books, including sixteen novels, six non-fiction books and several collections of short stories.

In 1962 Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Steinbeck grew up in the Salinas Valley region of California, a culturally diverse place of rich migratory and immigrant history. This upbringing imparted a regionalistic flavor to his writing, giving many of his works a distinct sense of place.

Steinbeck moved briefly to New York City, but soon returned home to California to begin his career as a writer. Most of his earlier work dealt with subjects familiar to him from his formative years. An exception was his first novel Cup of Gold which concerns the pirate Henry Morgan, whose adventures had captured Steinbeck’s imagination as a child.

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