From the Book - New edition.
Introduction / Harold Bloom --
The pearl and The old man and the sea : a comparative analysis / Edward E. Waldron --
Of mice and men : the dream of commitment / Louis Owens --
John Steinbeck's The red pony : a study in narrative technique / Howard Levant --
"Happy(?)-wife-and-motherdom" : the portrayal of Ma Joad in John Steinbeck's The grapes of wrath / Nellie McKay --
The front line of poverty / Jay Parini --
"Working at the impossible" : the presence of Moby-Dick in East of Eden / Robert DeMott --
Revisiting the Sea of Cortez with a "green" perspective / Clifford Eric Gladstein and Mimi Reisel Gladstein --
Natural wisdom : Steinbeck's men of nature as prophets and peacemakers / Marilyn Chandler McEntyre --
Steinbeck's light / David Wyatt --
Steinbeck and the Great Depression / Morris Dickstein --
Biography of John Steinbeck / Ellyn Sanna --
Champion of the common man : John Steinbeck and his achievement / Michael Price --
The fully matured art : The grapes of wrath / Howard Levant --
The enduring values of John Steinbeck's fiction : The university student and The grapes of wrath / Kenneth D. Swan.