Of Mice and Men

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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Of Mice and Men
is a novella written by Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck.
Published in 1937, it tells the tragic story of George Milton and Lennie
Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers during the Great Depression
in California. Based on Steinbeck's own experiences as a bindlestiff in
the 1920s (before the arrival of the Okies he would vividly describe in
The Grapes of Wrath), the title is taken from Robert Burns's poem, To a
Mouse, which read: "The best laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft
agley."