by John Steinbeck · Penguin Books, Limited (UK) · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140292954
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«The Red Pony» is the novel by John Steinbeck, published by Penguin Books in paperback (112 pages, in English).
Jody Tiflin is ten years old and lives on a ranch in California. His father gives him a red pony and then promises him the colt of a bay mare. The care and losses surrounding these animals show him the harder side of growing up: responsibility, death, and the fallibility of adults.
This edition from Penguin Books, Limited (UK), published in April 2001, belongs to the Steinbeck Essentials collection.
For young readers aged twelve and up, this edition also serves as a first introduction to the narrative of John Steinbeck.
John Ernst Steinbeck was an American writer and novelist. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception". He has been called "a giant of American letters". One of the most widely read authors of the 20th century. He was also an independent journalist and war correspondent during World War II and the Vietnam War.
