(Pulitzer Prize, Nobel Prize… ever heard of him?) It saw the light of day in 1935, and it's still one of the beloved author's most beloved books. Nope, it's not Taco Bell's latest attempt to create a diet-friendly dish Tortilla Flat is the first commercially and critically successful novel that John Steinbeck wrote.
Chapter 17: How Danny's sorrowing Friends defied the conventions.How through sacrifice Danny's Friends gave a party. How the devil in the shape of Torrelli assaulted Danny's House. Chapter 15: How Danny brooded and became mad.Chapter 14: Of the good life at Danny's House, of a gift pig, of the pain of Tall Bob, and of the thwarted love of the Viejo Ravanno.Chapter 13: How Danny's Friends threw themselves to the aid of a distressed lady.Chapter 12: How Danny's Friends assisted the Pirate to keep a vow, and how as a reward for merit the Pirate's dogs saw a holy vision.Chapter 11: How, under the most adverse circumstances, love came to Big Joe Portagee.Chapter 10: How the Friends solaced a Corporal and in return received a lesson in paternal ethics.Chapter 9: How Danny was ensnared by a vacuum-cleaner and how Danny's Friends rescued him.How Pilon found it and later how a pair of serge pants changed ownership twice. Chapter 8: How Danny's Friends sought mystic treasure on Saint Andrew's Eve.Chapter 7: How Danny's Friends became a force for Good.Chapter 6: How three sinful men, through contrition, attained peace.Chapter 5: How Saint Francis turned the tide and put a gentle punishment on Pilon and Pablo and Jesus Maria.Chapter 4: How Jesus Maria Corcoran, a good man, became an unwilling vehicle of evil.Chapter 3: How the poison of possessions wrought with Pilon, and how evil temporarily triumphed in him.Chapter 2: How Pilon was lured by greed of position to forsake Danny's hospitality.Chapter 1: How Danny, home from the wars, found himself an heir, and how he swore to protect the helpless.
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