What I didn’t appreciate until years later was that Steinbeck was a multi talented and curious writer, who experimented with various different types of writing during his long writing career. They speak of poverty and injustice, of prejudice and of hypocrisy. They are also both fairly serious works – by which I mean that they both clearly have a thing or two to say about the state of America in the 1930s. They are both brilliant pieces of literature that have been read and loved by many millions of people. Both novels focus on the lives of simple, poor farm labourers in the 1930s, and the hardships that they face. Years ago I read what are probably John Steinbeck’s two most famous novels, Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath. Now, a few weeks previous to this, my brother-in-law had mentioned that he had really enjoyed reading John Steinbeck’s novel Tortilla Flat, so when I found a copy for sale at Hunting Raven Books I snapped it up. During the weekend, we visited the pretty town of Frome, where (along with some great cafés) we found a great little independent bookshop named Hunting Raven Books. My wife and I recently enjoyed a weekend away in Somerset.
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