The Long Valley - Penguin twentieth-century classics Revised edition

First published in 1938, this volume of stories collected with the encouragement of his longtime editor Pascal Covici serves as a wonderful introduction to the work of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck. Set in the beautiful Salinas Valley of California, where simple people farm the land and struggle to find a place for themselves in the world, these stories reflect Steinbeck?s characteristic interests: the tensions between town and country, laborers and owners, past and present. Included here are the O. Henry Prize-winning story “The Murder?; “The Chrysanthemums,? perhaps Steinbeck?s most challenging story, both personally and artistically; “Flight,? “The Snake,? “The White Quail,? and the classic tales of “The Red Pony.? With an introduction and notes by John H. Timmerman.