“Of Mice and Men.” The Stations of the Cross of two vagabonds traveling through the Great Depression-stricken American South and finding refuge on a rich farm, where their appearance is destined to become the impetus for a cruel story of love, murder and terrible, merciless revenge... “The Pearl”. A charming and poetic tale about a mysterious pearl that turns the lives of the cheerful inhabitants of a poor section of a seaside town upside down, it is a story about human greed, true friendship and an inescapable love of beauty. Tortilla Flat and Cannery Row are two works dedicated to the colorful world of the slums the Californian city of Monterey in the 1930s. The reader will get to know very unusual characters, descendants of Indians, Mexicans and Americans - noble rogues and selfless cunning.