Introduction / Harold Bloom
The god in the darkness: a study of John Steinbeck and D. H. Lawrence / Richard F. Peterson
The red pony: commitment and quest / Louis Owens
The red pony: "the desolation of loss" / John H. Timmerman
A search for meaning in "Flight" / Robert M. Benton
"The chrysanthemums": Steinbeck's pygmalion / Susan Shillinglaw
Longing for the lost frontier: Steinbeck's vision of cultural decline in "The white quail" and "The chrysanthemums" / Christopher S. Busch
"Your own mind coming out in the garden": Steinbeck's elusive woman / John Ditsky
Faulkner and Steinbeck: thematic and stylistic resonance in the early stories / Mimi Reisel Gladstein
"Surrendering to the feminine": implied author compassion in "The chrysanthemums" and "Hills like white elephants" / Stephen K. George
Lonely ladies and landscapes: a comparison of John Steinbeck's "The white quail" and Eudora Welty's "A curtain of green" / Charlotte Cook Hadella.
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John Steinbeck's short stories. ISBN 9781604132717. Published by Bloom's Literary Criticism in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
