The Long Valley
First edition | |
| Author | John Steinbeck |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Short story collection |
| Publisher | Viking Press |
Publication date | 1938 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| OCLC | 940263143 |
The Long Valley is a collection of short fiction by John Steinbeck. Most of the stories appeared originally in literary periodicals, and were first collected by Viking Press in 1938.
Ranked among Steinbeck's "finest and best-known" fiction, these are among the most frequently anthologized of Steinbeck's stories, widely read by university undergraduates and high school students. Author and social critic Andre Gide declared that several stories in The Long Valley "equaled or surpassed" those of Russian author Anton Checkov.
"The Murder" and "The Promise" were selected for the O. Henry Prize anthology for short fiction in 1934 and 1938, respectively.