— Nobel Prize in Literature (1962)
During the Great Depression, two drifters, George Milton and Lennie Small, dream of owning a small farm and finding stability in an unforgiving world. Their friendship, marked by loyalty and hardship, is tested as they face the harsh realities of poverty and loneliness. John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men is a poignant tale about hope, human dignity, and the fragile bonds that hold people together.
Date: 1937 (United States)
Length: ~128 pages (varies by edition)
Cultural impact: ~7.000.000 copies (estimates)
Genre: Drama & Plays, Historical Fiction
"A thriller, a gripping tale... that you will not set down until it is finished. Steinbeck has touched the quick" — The New York Times (1937 review)
"Steinbeck is a genius and an original... There's a simplicity, a directness, a poignancy in the story that gives it a singular power, difficult to define" — Kirkus Reviews (1937)
"The story is simple but superb in its understatements, its realisms which are used not to illustrate behavior, but for character and situation" — James Brown, Saturday Review of Literature (1937)
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