John Steinbeck: The Red Pony (1454 words)

Cecilia Donohue (Madonna University)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: Postwar and Contemporary Writing and Culture of the United States, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Padraig Kirwan (Goldsmiths College, University of London), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University ), Kerry Myler (Newman University), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

First Circulation/Publication: 1933

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Context

The Red Pony is a compilation of four related short stories which were originally published in magazines from 1933 to 1936. The first three stories were published in 1937 in a limited edition, and then all four appeared in 1938 in a volume entitled The Long Valley. The volume was republished as an illustrated edition in 1945 under the title The Red Pony, which is the title under which the collection is known today.

The focus of the stories is the Tiflins, a farming family who live on a ranch in Steinbeck's beloved native Salinas Valley, California, with particular attention paid to their ten-year-old son Jody, as he negotiates the road to manhood and its accompanying revelations and responsibilities. All …

Citation:
Donohue, Cecilia. "The Red Pony". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 20 January 2006
[https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=7547, accessed 24 September 2017.]

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