The Red Pony Revised Edition Contributor(s): Steinbeck, John (Author), Seelye, John (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0140187391 ISBN-13: 9780140187397 Publisher: Penguin Group
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: October 1994 Annotation: Ownership of a red pony teaches ten-year-old Jody about life and death. Click for more in this series: Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Coming Of Age |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 94008791 |
Age Level: 18-UP |
Grade Level: 13-UP |
Lexile Measure: 810(Not Available) |
Series: Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century |
Physical Information: 0.38" H x 5.09" W x 7.76" L (0.24 lbs) 128 pages |
Features: Bibliography, Ikids, Price on Product |
Review Citations: People Weekly 10/25/2010 pg. 47 |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 5284 Reading Level: 6.1 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 6.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: A Penguin Classic Written at a time of profound anxiety caused by the illness of his mother, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck draws on his memories of childhood in these stories about a boy who embodies both the rebellious spirit and the contradictory desire for acceptance of early adolescence. Unlike most coming-of-age stories, the cycle does not end with a hero "matured" by circumstances. As John Seelye writes in his introduction, reversing common interpretations, The Red Pony is imbued with a sense of loss. Jody's encounters with birth and death express a common theme in Steinbeck's fiction: They are parts of the ongoing process of life, "resolving" nothing. The Red Pony was central not only to Steinbeck's emergence as a major American novelist but to the shaping of a distinctly mid twentieth-century genre, opening up a new range of possibilities about the fictional presence of a child's world. This edition contains an introduction by John Seelye. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
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