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Gary D. Schmidt Western American Literature, Volume 26, Number 4, Winter 1992, pp. 303-311 (Article) Published by University of Nebraska Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1992.0152 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/532296/summary Access provided at 24 Feb 2020 17:18 GMT from JHU Libraries G A R Y D. S CHM ID T Calvin College W hen John Steinbeck’s The Long Valley was published in 1938—-just a year before The Grapes o f Wrath— it received a m ixed critical reception, even though it contained several short stories which eventually came to be recognized as some o f Steinbeck’s masterpieces. The volum e in cluded “The Chrysanthemums,” “Flight,” “The Snake,” and the three short stories that make up “T he Red Pony.” Yet reviewers gave scant praise to th ese. Eda W alton, writing for The Nation, n o te d that Steinbeck’s “stories are com petent, but reading them o n e goes through n o authentic ex p erien ce.”1 Stanley Young, in the New York Times Book Review, wrote that all the stories have “a directness o f impression that makes them glow with life, small-scale though it is.”2 And Clifton Fadiman, in The New Yorker, suggested that though
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