Penguin Classics Burning Bright: A Play in Story Form, (Paperback)

from rainpebble

Burning Bright By John Steinbeck. My thoughts and comments: Burning Bright is one of three play-novelettes, (a genre created by Steinbeck), to be written by him. The first was Of Mice and Men and then The Moon is Down. "Burning Bright" is written in a very unusual manner and this is the first tim...

from Acrackedportrait

It ends as a sloshed family melodrama and a doctrine on the unimportance of blood line, family and the like. Unfortunately, the string on which the entire melodrama unravells is too flimsy, too thin. And it does get to be a drag at the end. The only thing unpredicatble about the ending is Victor'...

from jeffome

St. Barts 2012 #9 - An odd little book with an ending i did not expect......not too sure what i was supposed to get from this. I was certainly intrigued by the way the themes of this book were made universal by the changing setting. However, i was not intrigued by the somewhat shallow nature of s...

from rainpebble

Burning Bright By John Steinbeck. My thoughts and comments: Burning Bright is one of three play-novelettes, (a genre created by Steinbeck), to be written by him. The first was Of Mice and Men and then The Moon is Down. "Burning Bright" is written in a very unusual manner and this is the first tim...

from SigmundFraud

Not major Steinbeck but a wonderful brief story in three "acts" so to speak. He writes splendidly even in his minor works. Worth a detour.