<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="/pages/css/rss.css" type="text/css"?>
<rss xmlns:ps="http://trailfire.com" version="2.0"><channel><title>"favorite steinbeck" by madstar</title><link>http://trailfire.com/madstar/trails/40481</link><category>madstar/trails</category><ttl>60</ttl><item><title>Travels with Charley - Google Book Search</title><link>http://trailfire.com/madstar/marks/116856</link><description><![CDATA[To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the light— these were John Steinbeck&#39;s goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had been...]]></description><category>favorite steinbeck</category><author>madstar</author><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 01:07:31 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermalink="false">trailfire:markId:116856</guid></item><item><title>Travels With Charley: In Search of America - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</title><link>http://trailfire.com/madstar/marks/116858</link><description><![CDATA[ravels with Charley: In Search of America is a travelogue by American author John Steinbeck. It documents the road trip he took with his french poodle Charley around the United States in 1960.]]></description><category>favorite steinbeck</category><author>madstar</author><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 01:08:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermalink="false">trailfire:markId:116858</guid></item><item><title>East of Eden</title><link>http://trailfire.com/madstar/marks/116861</link><description><![CDATA[In A Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letter, the writer&#39;s diary of East of Eden, Steinbeck calls the novel “...the story of my country and the story of me.”]]></description><category>favorite steinbeck</category><author>madstar</author><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 01:08:48 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermalink="false">trailfire:markId:116861</guid></item><item><title>Background to Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck</title><link>http://trailfire.com/madstar/marks/116863</link><description><![CDATA[The best laid schemes o&#39; mice and men Gang aft agley [often go wrong] And leave us nought but grief and pain For promised joy!]]></description><category>favorite steinbeck</category><author>madstar</author><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 01:09:36 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermalink="false">trailfire:markId:116863</guid></item><item><title>Of Mice and Men</title><link>http://trailfire.com/madstar/marks/116865</link><description><![CDATA[Clinging to each other in their loneliness and alienation, George and his simple-minded friend Lennie dream, as drifters will, of a place to call their own.]]></description><category>favorite steinbeck</category><author>madstar</author><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 01:10:09 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermalink="false">trailfire:markId:116865</guid></item><item><title>The Grapes of Wrath - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</title><link>http://trailfire.com/madstar/marks/116867</link><description><![CDATA[Set during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on a poor family of sharecroppers, the Joads, driven from their home by drought, economic hardship, and changes in the agriculture industry.]]></description><category>favorite steinbeck</category><author>madstar</author><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 01:10:40 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermalink="false">trailfire:markId:116867</guid></item><item><title>John Steinbeck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</title><link>http://trailfire.com/madstar/marks/116868</link><description><![CDATA[Steinbeck often populated his stories with struggling characters, and his stories drew on real historical conditions and events in the first half of the 20th century.]]></description><category>favorite steinbeck</category><author>madstar</author><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 01:10:57 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermalink="false">trailfire:markId:116868</guid></item></channel></rss>
