One night at the drive-in theater, Ponyboy, Johnny, Two-Bit, and Dally meet Cherry Valance and Marcia, two Soc girls whose boyfriends have left them there.
The other members of the Greaser gang are Johnny Cade, Dally Winston, Two-Bit Mathews, and Steve Randle. Other than being financially and socially disadvantaged, the Greasers' main problem is getting jumped by the Socs, the rich kids from the West Side. They are all members of a Greaser gang, meaning they are considered hoods or juvenile delinquents by society. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.Ponyboy Curtis, the fourteen-year-old narrator, lives with his older brothers Sodapop and Darry, since their parents passed away in a car accident. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. At least he knows what to expect-until the night things go too far.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. Ponyboy has a few things he can count on: his older brothers, his friends, and trouble with the Socs, whose idea of a good time is beating up greasers. Then there are the greasers, like Ponyboy, who aren’t so lucky. There are the Socs, the rich society kids who get away with anything.
In Ponyboy’s world there are two types of people. Today, with more than eight million copies sold, The Outsiders continues to resonate with its powerful portrait of the bonds and boundaries of friendship. Hinton’s novel was an immediate phenomenon. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Readįirst published in 1967, S. Celebrate the 50th anniversary (April, 2017) of a landmark coming-of-age American novel with a Penguin Classics edition featuring an introduction by Jodi Picoult, author of My Sister’s Keeper.
0 kommentar(er)
