Contents: (from the 1971 revised edition)

• Introduction by Pascal Covici, Jr. (1943)
  From The Long Valley
• Flight
• The Snake
• The Harness
• The Chrysanthemums
  From The Pastures of Heaven
• Tularecito
• Molly Morgan
• Pat Humbert
  From Tortilla Flat
• Danny
• Pilon
• The Pirate
• The Treasure Hunt
• Tortillas and Beans
  From In Dubious Battle
• A Future We Can't Foresee
  Of Mice and Men
• The Complete Novel
  The Red Pony
• The Gift
• The Great Mountains
• The Promise
• The Leader of the People
  From The Long Valley
• Breakfast
  From The Grapes of Wrath
• The Turtle
• "The Last Clear Definite Function of Man"
• Migrant People
• Life and Death
• Breakfast and Work
• Ma and Tom
• The Flood
  From Sea of Cortez
• "Is" Thinking and "Living Into"
• The Pearl of La Paz
• Parable of Laziness
• Differences
• "It Might Be So"
  From "About Ed Ricketts"
• "Knowing Ed Ricketts..."
• "Speculative Metaphysics"
  From Cannery Row
• Frog Hunt
  From East of Eden
• Adam and his Sons
• Choice and Responsibility
• Technology and Technocrat
• Timshel
  Two Uncollected Stories
• The Affair at 7, rue de M--
• How Mr. Hogan Robbed a Bank
  From Travels with Charley in Search of America
• People
• Texan Ostentation
• Southern Troubles
• Last Leg
  The Language of Awareness
• From East of Eden
• Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech