Editing Of Mice and Men (section)

==Reception==
Attaining the greatest positive response of any of his works up to that time, Steinbeck's novella was chosen as a [[Book of the Month Club]] selection before it was published. Praise for the work came from many notable critics, including Maxine Garrard (''Enquirer-Sun''),<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_3ukzgEACAAJ |title=John Steinbeck – The Contemporary Reviews |isbn=9780521114097 |last1=Joseph r. Mcelrath |first1=Jr |last2=Crisler |first2=Jesse S. |last3=Shillinglaw |first3=Susan |date=18 June 2009 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |archive-date=March 25, 2023 |access-date=March 25, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230325192000/https://books.google.com/books?id=_3ukzgEACAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Christopher Morley]], and Harry Thornton Moore (''New Republic'').<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.goldenbooksgroup.co.uk/index.php?target=products&product_id=100627|title=Harry Thornton Moore: John Steinbeck and His Novels - an appreciation by Harry Thronton Moore|website=www.goldenbooksgroup.co.uk|access-date=10 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090610140200/http://www.goldenbooksgroup.co.uk/index.php?target=products&product_id=100627|archive-date=June 10, 2009}}</ref> ''New York Times'' critic Ralph Thompson described the novella as a "grand little book, for all its ultimate melodrama".<ref name="ContemporaryReviews">{{cite book|last=McElrath|first=Joseph R.|author2=Jesse S. Crisler |author3=Susan Shillinglaw |title=John Steinbeck: The Contemporary Reviews|publisher=Cambridge University Press|pages=71–94|year=1996|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uFSfYMpUyokC&q=%22mice+and+men%22+%22christopher+morley%22&pg=PA85|access-date=October 8, 2007|isbn=978-0-521-41038-0}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=CliffNotes: Of Mice and Men : About the Author|publisher=Wiley Publishing, Inc.|pages=71–94|date=2000–2007|url=http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/Of-Mice-and-Men.id-101,pageNum-2.html|access-date=October 8, 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071014182005/http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/Of-Mice-and-Men.id-101,pageNum-2.html|archive-date=October 14, 2007}}</ref> In the UK, it was listed at number 52 of the "nation's best loved novels" on the [[BBC]]'s 2003 survey [[The Big Read]].<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml "The Big Read"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230701083752/https://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml |date=July 1, 2023 }}, BBC, April 2003. Retrieved January 12, 2014</ref>