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    Of Mice and Men

    novella by John Steinbeck

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    Biography john man mouse steinbeck

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    • For the unrelated film, see Mice and Men (film). For other uses, see Of Mice and Men (disambiguation).

    First edition cover

    AuthorJohn Steinbeck
    Cover&#;artistRoss MacDonald
    LanguageEnglish
    GenreTragedy
    PublisherCovici Friede

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    Publication placeUnited States
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    Of Mice and Men is a novella written by American author John Steinbeck.[1][2] It describes the experiences of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrantranch workers, as they move from place to place in California, searching for jobs during the Great Depression.

    Steinbeck based the novella on his own experiences as a teenager working alongside migrant farm workers in the s, before the arrival of the Okies whom he would describe in his novel The Grapes of Wrath. The title is taken from Robert Burns' poem "To a Mouse": "The best laid schemes o'