![]() "An utterly unprecedented sort of book, and hard to analyze in its unique charm" (Virginia Kirkus). It deals with the band's adventuring, multiple loves and wonderful brawls, and Gargantuan wine-drinking. It is the story of Danny, who, home from the war, inherits two houses which at once become a haven for his friends and lovers, not unlike the chivalric order of King Arthur and his court, the Knights of the Round Table. Set in Monterey, California, Tortilla Flat tells the story of a small band of paisanos who resist the the corrupting tides of honest toil in favor of a life of adventure. From the library of Virginia bibliophile and historian Christopher Clark Geest with his bookplate to the pastedown. Adopting the structure and themes of Arthurian legend, John Steinbeck creates a Camelot on a shabby hillside above Monterey on the. Through Tortilla Flat, Steinbeck portrays a small band of vagabond friends enjoying life and wine in the days after the end of World War I. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. ![]() ![]() New York: Covici-Friede Publishers, 1935.įirst edition of Steinbeck’s first commercially successful book.
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