Streetwise George and his big, childlike friend Lennie are drifters, searching for work in the fields and valleys of California. They have nothing except the clothes on their back, and a hope that one day they'll find a place of their own and live the American dream. But dreams come at a price. Gentle giant Lennie doesn't know his own strength, and when they find work at a ranch he gets into trouble with the boss's daughter-in-law. Trouble so bad that even his protector George may not be able to save him.

A fisherman finds the great pearl, only to lose it again. Re-issue of Steinbeck's classic.

特拉斯克家族的第一代赛勒斯伪造参加南北战争的经历，骗取了名誉和财产，并专横地送儿子亚当从军，生性善良的亚当收留了一个重伤的女子卡西，却不料她为人邪恶，抛下亚当和一对孪生子改名换姓开了妓院，后来孪生子又因发现她的秘密而走上不同的生活道路；而另一个家族的家长汉密尔顿却正直、勇敢、智慧，他教育成人的子女都秉承了他的善良性格并各有成就。

This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks and the Hamiltons--whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.

在线阅读本书 Shocking and controversial when it was first published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer prize-winning epic remains his undisputed masterpiece. Set against the background of dust bowl Oklahoma and Californian migrant life, it tells of the Joad family, who, like thousands of others, are forced to travel West in search of the promised land. Their story is one of false hopes, thwarted desires and broken dreams, yet out of their suffering Steinbeck created a drama that is intensely human, yet majestic in its scale and moral vision; an eloquent tribute to the endurance and dignity of the human spirit.