Of Mice and Men: John Steinbeck

Lennie was still staring at the door where the woman had stood. 'Oh, she's really pretty,' he said and smiled. George turned round to face him, took hold of one of his ears and shook him.
'Listen to me, you fool,' George said fiercely. 'Don't even look at that woman. I don't care what she says and what she does. I've see dangerous women before, but nobody as dangerous as her.'
The tragic story of George and Lennie, who move from one farm to another, looking for work. George is clever but Lennie's size and slowness is always getting him into trouble. One day the two men get a job on a farm. Things are going well until they meet the unhappy wife of Curley, the farm foreman. Curley's wife becomes friendly with Lennie...
Retold by Martin Winks.