Tehran – A Persian translation of “Long Valley,” a collection of short stories by John Steinbeck, was released in Iranian bookstores.
Veteran Iranian translator Asadora Amrai translated the book, and OfoQ Publishing published it on 192 pages, Honaronline reported.
Most of the stories originally appeared in literary periodicals, and were first collected in 1938 by the Viking Press.
Ranked in Steinbeck’s “most famous and famous” fiction, these are one of the most frequently occurring of Steinbeck’s stories, which are widely read by undergraduates and high school students at university.
In the story, “Murder” and “Promise” were selected as the O. Henry Award anthology for short stories in 1934 and 1938, respectively.
This amount of stories gathered with the encouragement of his longtime editor Pascal Covici serves as a great introduction to the work of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck.
Set in the beautiful Salinas Valley of California, where simple people farm land and struggle to find a place for themselves in the world, these stories reflect Steinbeck’s distinctive interests. The tension between towns and countries, workers and owners, past and present. Here, O. Henry’s award-winning stories, “The Murder,” “The Chrysanthemums,” and perhaps Steinbeck’s most challenging stories, both personal and artistic, classics of “Flight,” “The Snake,” “The White Quail,” and “The Red Pony.”
John Steinbeck (1902-1968) was an American writer. He was awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is called the “American Letter Giant.”
During his writing career, he has written 33 books, one co-authored with Edward Ricketts, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books and two short stories. He is widely known for his comic novels Tortilla Flat (1935) and Canary Row (1945), the multi-generational epic East Eden (1952), and the novels Red Pony (1933) and Mouse and the Male (1937). The Pulitzer Prize for “The Grapes of Wrath” (1939) is considered part of Steinbeck’s masterpiece and a canon of American literature.
Many of Steinbeck’s works have adopted settings in his home country center, particularly in the Salinas Valley and California Coast Band region. His works frequently explored the themes of fate and injustice, especially as applied to the protagonist of oppressed or all.
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