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Of Mice and Men is a novella written by author John Steinbeck. Published in 1937, it tells the story of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers, who move from place to place in California in search of new job opportunities during the Great Depression in the United States.
The title of the novel is taken from the poem of Robert Burns, To a Mouse On Turning Her Up in Her Nest with a Plow, November, 1785. Burns wrote that The best laid schemes o' mice and men / Gang aft a-gley [often go astray], / And lea'v us nought but grief and pain, / For promised joy..