by John Steinbeck · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141185095
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«The Red Pony» is John Steinbeck's collection of four stories, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (128 pages, in English).
Jody Tiflin, a ten-year-old boy, grows up on a California ranch. When his father gives him a red pony, the boy edges towards maturity and learns, through his dealings with horses, painful lessons about life, death, and the fallibility of adults.
This volume of Penguin Modern Classics includes an introduction by John Seelye. The four stories were originally published in 1933.
It is aimed at young and adult readers, especially those who want to discover Steinbeck's work and classic American literature.
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.
