![]() Steinbeck’s following works, In Dubious Battle and Of Mice and Men, were both successful and in 1938 his masterpiece The Grapes of Wrath was published. The novel’s endearing comic tone captured the public’s imagination, and the novel became a financial success. Tortilla Flat describes the antics of several drifters who share a house in California. His father, a government official in Salinas, gave the couple a house while Steinbeck continued writing. He married in 1930 and moved back to California with his wife. He moved to New York and worked as a manual laborer and journalist while writing his first two novels, which were not successful. Steinbeck, a native Californian, had studied writing intermittently at Stanford between 19 but never graduated. "An utterly unprecedented sort of book, and hard to analyze in its unique charm" (Virginia Kirkus).John Steinbeck’s first successful novel, Tortilla Flat, is published on May 28, 1935. It deals with the band's adventuring, multiple loves and wonderful brawls, and Gargantuan wine-drinking. 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. One of the most difficult books in the Steinbeck canon to locate signed. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket, erasure to the front free endpaper. Boldly signed by John Steinbeck on the front free endpaper. New York: Covici-Friede Publishers, 1935.įirst edition of Steinbeck’s first commercially successful book.
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