Steinbeck continued: “I wrote these stories because they were true stories and because I liked them. The problem was that the paisano inhabitants were, as Thomas Fensch explains in his introduction to the Penguin Modern Classics edition, judged “to be bums – colourful perhaps, eccentric yes, but bums nonetheless”. “Had I known that these stories and these people would be considered quaint, I think I never should have written them.” They are people whom I know and like, people who merge successfully with their habitat,” he wrote in a 1937 edition foreword. “When this book was written it did not occur to me that paisanos were curious or quaint, dispossessed or underdoggish.
Surprisingly, he was also soon regretting writing the story of central character Danny and his bibulous housemates.
Soon he would produce classics including Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath.
The book sold in huge quantities, the film rights were bought and Steinbeck was properly launched.
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