“The Red Pony and other stories” by John Steinbeck. World Publishing, (1949). Movie edition.
Rear panel of the dust jacket with scenes from the movie.
“A great American story, together with 12 other tales, formerly published as THE LONG VALLEY. The story from which the Technicolor film was made, starring Myrna Loy, Robert Mitchum, Louis Calhern, Peter Miles and Sheppard Strudwick. A Republic Picture – Directed by Lewis Milestone. A Charles K. Feldman – Lewis Milestone Production.
“’The Red Pony’ is one of Steinbeck’s finest stories and the title story of this volume. It is one of thirteen magnificent stories, almost all set against the background of the Salinas Valley that Steinbeck has preempted as his literary domain. Here we see once more the paisanos of ‘Tortilla Flat,’ the barley-ranch hands of ‘Of Mice and Men,’ the agricultural workers of ‘In Dubious Battle’ – the farm boys, the idlers on the wharves of Monterey, the simple people of the land so profoundly brought to life in all of Steinbeck’s work.
“Contained in this volume are: ‘The Chrysanthemums,’ the ‘White Quail,’ ‘Flight,’ ‘The Snake,’ ‘Breakfast,’ ‘The Raid,’ ‘The Harness,’ ‘The Vigilante,’ ‘Johnny Bear,’ ‘The Murder,’ ‘St. Katy the Virgin,’ ‘Red Pony’ (3 Parts), ‘The Leader of the People.’
“Some of the finest work that the author of ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ has ever produced has been in the short story or novelette form. Always a superb craftsman who leans to economy of words and directness and concreteness of impression, Steinbeck often includes in a single tale as much material as another author would spread thinly throughout a novel.”
[From the blurb on the dust jacket]
“The Red Pony and other stories” by John Steinbeck. World Publishing, (1949). Movie edition.
Rear panel of the dust jacket with scenes from the movie.
“A great American story, together with 12 other tales, formerly published as THE LONG VALLEY. The story from which the Technicolor film was made, starring Myrna Loy, Robert Mitchum, Louis Calhern, Peter Miles and Sheppard Strudwick. A Republic Picture – Directed by Lewis Milestone. A Charles K. Feldman – Lewis Milestone Production.
“’The Red Pony’ is one of Steinbeck’s finest stories and the title story of this volume. It is one of thirteen magnificent stories, almost all set against the background of the Salinas Valley that Steinbeck has preempted as his literary domain. Here we see once more the paisanos of ‘Tortilla Flat,’ the barley-ranch hands of ‘Of Mice and Men,’ the agricultural workers of ‘In Dubious Battle’ – the farm boys, the idlers on the wharves of Monterey, the simple people of the land so profoundly brought to life in all of Steinbeck’s work.
“Contained in this volume are: ‘The Chrysanthemums,’ the ‘White Quail,’ ‘Flight,’ ‘The Snake,’ ‘Breakfast,’ ‘The Raid,’ ‘The Harness,’ ‘The Vigilante,’ ‘Johnny Bear,’ ‘The Murder,’ ‘St. Katy the Virgin,’ ‘Red Pony’ (3 Parts), ‘The Leader of the People.’
“Some of the finest work that the author of ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ has ever produced has been in the short story or novelette form. Always a superb craftsman who leans to economy of words and directness and concreteness of impression, Steinbeck often includes in a single tale as much material as another author would spread thinly throughout a novel.”
[From the blurb on the dust jacket]