![]() ![]() "An utterly unprecedented sort of book, and hard to analyze in its unique charm" (Virginia Kirkus). ![]() He went on to write more than twenty-five novels, including The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men. It deals with the band's adventuring, multiple loves and wonderful brawls, and Gargantuan wine-drinking. John Steinbeck (1902-1968), winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, achieved popular success in 1935 when he published Tortilla Flat. It is the story of Danny, who, home from the war, inherits two houses which at once become a haven for his friends and lovers, not unlike the chivalric order of King Arthur and his court, the Knights of the Round Table. Set in Monterey, California, Tortilla Flat tells the story of a small band of paisanos who resist the the corrupting tides of honest toil in favor of a life of adventure. Danny is a paisano, descended from the original Spanish. Adopting the structure and themes of the Arthurian legend, Steinbeck created a Camelot on a shabby hillside above. From the library of Virginia bibliophile and historian Christopher Clark Geest with his bookplate to the pastedown. Steinbecks first major critical and commercial success, TORTILLA FLAT is also his funniest novel. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. ![]() New York: Covici-Friede Publishers, 1935.įirst edition of Steinbeck’s first commercially successful book. Number of times this content has been viewed 16 Button to like this content Button to share content Button to report this. ![]()
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