
'They can’t do anything bad. Weren’t here to balance matters. A few years there might do things to a man’s mind if those women. A place like Loma with its fogs, with its great swamp like a hideous sin, needed, really needed, the Hawkins women.

29:25.With California, the focus of this site. Bookworm Audiobooks 1 tis. AudiobookShortStory The snake by John Steinbeck Mindwebs by Mr. To the north and east of the town a black tule swamp stretches for miles, but to the south the marsh has been drained.Johnny Bear read by John Steinbeck.

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To celebrate the sale Henry drives her to SalinasFor dinner at the Cominos Hotel and a movie they drive past the tinker onMary has her garden designed before its lot is bought, before she's married. He asks for seeds for a lady on his route.Elisa gives him seedlings with instructions, and then she finds work for himWhich he does professionally. He asks forWork which Elisa says she hasn't. "TheRed Pony" and "The Leader of the People" are given separately as The Red PonyOn Henry Allen's ranch east of Salinas Elisa plants yellow chrysanthemums asHenry is selling thirty head of cattle to agents of the Western Meat Company.After he and Scotty go to round up the cattle, a tinker shows up. Set in the beautiful Salinas Valley of California, where simple people farm the lands and struggle to find a place for themselvesIn the world, these stories reflect Steinbeck's characteristic intereststhe tensions between town and country, laborers and owners, past and present."All have one rare, creative thing: a directness of impression that makes them glow with life."Short stories, not given chapter numbers, are numberedHere as a convenience for referencing the list of main characters. Benson's John Steinbeck, p 253White: actual locations mentioned in The Long ValleyOrange: suggestion for locations, based on description"Steinbeck makes his country live and the people live as part of it."This classic collection, first published in 1938, serves as a wonderful introduction to Steinbeck's work.
SheRoutinely locks him from her tiny bedroom on the garden. SheDoesn't care for his occupation (making loans for cars) it's unfair. After the house is builtAnd the garden established Harry finds her perfect though untouchable.
Pepé, who isBeautiful but lazy, is sent to Monterey for medicine and salt. Next morning he shoots the white quail then tells Mary itMama Torres makes Emilo and Rosy fish when they can. He refuses but will try to hit such a catWith his new air rifle. After a white quail visits the cement pond she fears a cat will comeAnd asks Harry to put out poison fish. She refuses to let him have a setter pup since it might damageHer garden.
The lab: rattlesnakes, rats,Cats killing a cat. Phillips brings a sack of starfish from the tide poolTo his laboratory on the cannery street in Monterey. He runs on forYoung marine biologist Dr. He exchangesShots and receives a granite splinter wound in his right hand. After a day's riding he sleeps and is awakened by a horse down the trail.He rides another day before his horse is shot out from under him. He returnsBefore dawn, then rides into the high hills as his family bids him, now a man,Adios.
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The starfish series is ruined. Her snakishBehavior during the feeding annoys Phillips. SheWants to buy the male rattlesnake which she wants to keep in the lab. While she waits he begins embalming the cat.

He wakes in a hospital cell. He stands again and passes out. Root greets the raiders as comrades and is hit withA club.
He says Emma kept him worried all year about those peas: sheMike watches the crowd depart after a lynching. At the Ramona Hotel in San Francisco, to meetHis wife's cousin from Ohio, Ed sees Peter come in drunk from a fancy house onVan Ness Avenue. Alone with Ed, he removes his shoulder brace and girdle, gets whiskeyFrom the barn, tells of his one week a year at San Francisco fancy houses, of hisDream of filling the bottom land with sweet peas and the house with fat women.DeWitt says he's crazy to plant sweet peas, but they are so beautifulSchoolbusses drive out to see them. When she dies Peter becomesHysterical. After Peter's annual business trips Emma becomes sick forSeveral weeks and the neighbors bring cakes and pies. "opium of the people."Randall's ranch east of Salinas and across the river is an ideal blend ofBottomland and upland.
For whiskey he imitates a dialogue between me and Mae.Next he imitates the Hawkins sisters, neighbors of Alex. I'm at the Buffalo Bar with AlexWhen Johnny Bear comes in. In the bathroom Mike realizes that's exactlyI'm in Loma to drain the swamp north of town. Mike's wifeAccuses him of being with a woman. The bartender buys a swatch of the dead man'sPants from Mike to hang up at the bar. Mike tells of the raid on theJail, the beating, the lynching.
He marries Jelka SepicWho is obedient but quiet. Alex punches JohnnyJim Moore visits the Three Star in Monterey on Saturdays. Johnny's imitation includes Amy's pregnancy. After two weeks of trouble with the dredging, we learn that Amy hasKilled herself.
