Of Mice and Men

George and his large, simple-minded friend Lennie are drifters, with nothing in the world except each other and a dream. A dream that one day they will have some land of their own, somewhere to settle and live in peace. Finding work on a ranch in California’s Salinas Valley, they hope to stay long enough to get some money together. But kind-hearted, childlike Lennie is prone to getting into trouble unable to control either his emotions or his enormous strength, he is a target for the casual cruelty of others. And when disaster strikes again, it seems that this time George may not be able to save his friend - A powerfully moving story of the lonely and dispossessed, Of Mice and Men is one of John Steinbeck’s best-known and most popular books.