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Of Mice and Men advertisement. Text reads "A masterpiece has happened. Let Christopher Morley tell you how it was written..." This is a love story and a tragedy, but both the love and the grief are quite different from what the reader might expect. And the reception of this little book will be different from what the author may have anticipated. Its publisher has told me that Mr Steinbeck wrote it 'as an experiment'; that he did not even insist on its publication. 'Don't publish it if you don't like it," he wrote, and didn't even wish to see proofs of it. I can understand that: a writer who has put on paper something so deeply moving whishes for a while not to think of it again. "In just such casual ways, in this our world of obliquity and squint do masterpieces happen" From the Book of the Month Club News.