A novelist who is also a true poet' Sunday Times

This is the story of Danny and of Danny's friends and of Danny's house. It is a story of how these things became one thing so that in Tortilla Flat if you speak of Danny's house you do not mean a structure of wood flaked with old whitewash

overgrown with an ancient untrimmed rose of Castile.

Steinbeck's first major critical and commercial success, Tortilla Flat is also his funniest novel. In it we meet Danny, who inherits no less than two old houses in the seedy end of Monterey. Here he holds court for his Paisano friends from the valleys, woods and beaches nearby

Through a series of great adventures and daring deeds, they

form a tight-knit group with a code of honour and a clear purpose in life. Until a stranger, the Pirate, arrives to temp