"This is the story of Danny and of Danny's friends and of Danny's house. It is a story of how these three became on thing."

Danny returns from the Great War to inherit two houses in the shabby district of Tortilla Flat. He falls in with a group of poor paisanos. Together, they gossip, talk about life and plan the next drinking binge. And, when money does come their way, the parties are the kind that are not easily forgotten.

Hardback (including notes) 235pp

This book is part of a book series called Longman Literature Steinbeck .

This book is aimed at children in secondary school.

There are 256 pages in this book. This book was published 2001 by Pearson Education Limited .

During World War II, Steinbeck was a war correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune. Some of his dispatches were later collected and made into Once There Was a War.