The red pony and other stories

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The Red Pony and Other Tales is a collection of short stories by the American Nobel Prize winner for literature, John Steinbeck . The original is called The Long Valley and was published in 1938 . It was translated into German by Rudolf Frank. The longest and titular story contained therein The Red Pony (The Red Pony) was in the US already in 1933 published.

The setting for the stories is Steinbeck's homeland, the rural areas in the western United States. He expresses the joys and worries of its residents in clear language. It is not one of Steinbeck's happier works, but it is told in a fascinating way.

The cover story, set on a farm in the Salinas Valley, is divided into four sections, all of which are stand-alone short stories with their own plot. In the first part ( The Gift ), the boy Jody is given a pony . When the animal catches a severe cold, farm assistant Billy Buck does everything in his power to get it back to health. The big mountains , the second section, is about an old Paisano who is dying looking for home. In the third part, The Promise , Jody is given a horse again, but it is still in the womb. In the fourth and final section, The Leader , Jody's grandfather comes to the farm and has to realize that today's generation can no longer form a unit.

The stories

  • Morning meal
  • Raid
  • Escape
  • Lynch faces
  • The killer
  • The second voice
  • The tank
  • The snake
  • Chrysanthemums
  • A white quail
  • The Red Pony (1 The Gift; 2 The Great Mountains; 3 The Promise; 4 The Leader)

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