... was not successful. He returned to California and worked on his first novel, The Cup of Gold in 1929. His first successful book was Tortilla Flat written in 1935. It was a collection of humorous short stories. In Dubious Battle was about a farm workers" strike in California. Two years later, one of his more successful and popular books, Of Mice and Men, was written. It was followed ... speech, he spoke of the "high duties and the responsibilities of the makers of literature." He said that writers should show people's faults and failures so that they can improve themselves, but at the sa...

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