"Of Mice and Men is a novella written by Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck. Published in 1937, it tells the tragic story of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers during the Great Depression in California.

Based on Steinbeck's own experiences as a bindlestiff in the 1920s (before the arrival of the Okies he would vividly describe in The Grapes of Wrath), the title is taken from Robert Burns's poem "To a Mouse", which read: "The best laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft agley." (The best laid schemes of mice and men / Go oft awry.)

Required reading in many schools, Of Mice and Men has been a frequent target of censors for vulgarity and what some consider offensive language; consequently, it appears on the American Library Association's list of the Most Challenged Books of 21st Century."

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Of_mice_and_men


Used book bought from Better World Books.
Registered with a pre-numbered label on April 15th, 2011.

This is a well written book, more than just well, and I enjoyed reading it, but at the same time I found it a bit too dark for my taste. In the mere 100 hundred pages it often left me with a feeling of frustration and helplessness, instilling a sense that some people's destinies are predetermined, but not by some outside force, but rather by an inner inability to change and to see possible outcomes to one's decisions and actions.

The book is now in the care of the Post Office,
on its way to IanQuigley in Ireland.

Thank you for offering & sending me a wishlist book, Lord of the Flies.
Sending this one your way to say thanks and adding a thing or two into the envelope as a surprise. Good choice by the way, just don't read it when you're feeling blue. Though, you don't really strike me as somebody who gets the blues. ;)

Happy reading! :)