This story deals with the adventuring of Danny's friends, with the good they did, with their thoughts and their endeavors. And this is the story of how that group came into being, of how it flourished and grew to be an organization beautiful and wise. For Danny's house was not unlike the Round Table, and Danny's friends were not unlike the knights of it. No, when you speak of Danny's house you are understood to mean a unit of which the parts are men, from which came sweetness and joy, philanthropy and, in the end, a mystic sorrow. It is a story of how these three became one thing, so that in Tortilla Flat if you speak of Danny's house you do not mean a structure of wood flaked with old whitewash, overgrown with an ancient untrimmed rose of Castile. 207 pages.įrom the preface, "This is the story of Danny and of Danny's friends and of Danny's house.
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