Beware what you wish for, you hedonist sinner, Man shall not live by bread alone and hell is other people. So, is there already a comparative literary and/or s

Beware what you wish for, you hedonist sinner, Man shall not live by bread alone and hell is other people. So, is there already a comparative literary and/or sociological study of Steinbecks 'Of Mice and Men' and O'Brien's 'Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH'?