A selection of criticism, arranged in chronological order of publication, devoted to the fiction of John Steinbeck.

Steinbeck against Steinbeck / Donald Weeks -- Intimations of a wasteland / Richard Astro -- The fully matured art : The grapes of wrath / Howard Levant -- John Steinbeck : a usable concept of naturalism / Warren French -- Tortilla Flat re-visited / Arthur F. Kinney -- Steinbeck's strong women : feminine identity in the short stories / Marilyn L. Mitchell -- John Steinbeck : novelist as scientist / Jackson J. Benson -- Steinbeck and nature's self : The grapes of wrath / John J. Conder -- Living for writing / Anthony Burgess -- Of mice and men : the dream of commitment / Louis Owens -- Abra : the indestructible woman in East of Eden / Mimi Reisel Gladstein.