Cover of Burning Bright

Burning Bright

by John Steinbeck

1950 159 pages eng

A short novel written in an experimental blend of play and novel. The story is a simple morality play set in a circus. When an ageing man’s young wife suspects that her husband is sterile she decides to seduce his young assistant solely to become pregnant, wanting to give her husband the child he cr…

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