Flight Summary
John Steinbeck

Flight Summary

John Steinbeck's short story "Flight" was published in 1938 in The Long Valley, a collection of stories set in the Salinas Valley in California. The book appeared just three years after Steinbeck first received critical acclaim for his novel Tortilla Flat and one year before the publication of what many consider his greatest work, The Grapes of Wrath. "Flight" is generally considered one of Steinbeck's best works of short fiction, wntten at the height...

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