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John Steinbeck's famous tale about two farm labourers was a hit immediately it was published in 1937, with critics praising it for its simple, unassuming realism. 'The theme is not, as the title would suggest, that the best laid plans of mice and men gang aft agley,' wrote Fred Marsh in the New York Times Book Review, 'but a play on the immemorial theme of what men live by besides bread alone.' In this short guide Stephen Fender examines what Steinbeck is really trying to tell us in his novel, and explains what it is that makes it such a masterpiece.

Steven Fender holds degrees from Stanford, Wales and the University of Manchester. He has taught at the University of Santa Clara, Williams and Dartmouth Colleges, the University of Edinburgh, University College London and the University of Sussex, where he was Professor and Chair of American Studies from 1985 - 2001. His books include a study of the rhetoric of the California gold rush, called Plotting the Golden West (1982), Sea Changes: British Emigration and American Literature (1992), and Nature Class and New Deal Literature (2011), about how the American country poor got treated in the novels, documentary photographs and bureaucratic prose of the New Deal liberals. He is now Honorary Professor of English at University College London.