Contains:

From The long valley. Flight ; The snake ; The harness ; The chrysanthemums --
From The pastures of heaven. Tularecito ; Molly Morgan ; Pat Humbert's --
From Tortilla Flat. Danny ; Pilon ; The pirate ; The treasure hunt ; Tortillas and beans --
From In dubious battle. A future we can't foresee --
Of mice and men (the complete novel) --
The red pony. The gift ; The great mountains ; The promise ; The leader of the people --
From The long valley. Breakfast --
From The grapes of wrath. The turtle ; "The last clear definite function of man" ; Migrant people ; Life and death ; Breakfast and work ; Ma and Tom ; The flood --
From Sea of Cortez. "Is" thinking and "living into" ; The pearl of La Paz ; Parable of laziness ; Differences ; "It might be so" --
From "About Ed Ricketts." "Knowing Ed Ricketts ..." ; "Speculative metaphysics" --
From Cannery Row. Frog hunt --
From East of Eden. Adam and his sons ; Choice and responsibility ; Technology and a technocrat ; Timshel --
Two uncollected stories. The affair at 7, rue de M --
; How Mr. Hogan robbed a bank --
From Travels with Charley in search of America. People ; Texan ostentation ; Southern troubles ; Last leg --
The language of awareness. From East of Eden ; Nobel prize acceptance speech.