Title: We Are Holding Our Own

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Title: We Are Holding Our Own Title Record # 3083505
Author: John Steinbeck
Date: 1955-11-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English

Synopsis: The dysfunction but slow progress of human civilization is described in the earliest families/tribes, with reference to contemporary human problems.

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1957^ⓘFirst published in Playboy [April 1957] according to Acknowledgements in Penguin Science Fiction, although R. S. Hughes, Beyond the Red Pony: A Reader's Companion to Steinbeck's Complete Short Stories cites an earlier appearance under the title 'We Are Holding Our Own' in Lilliput, November 1955.	The Short-Short Story of Mankind

Year	Language	Title
1976^ⓘTranslated by Hans Kemming	Dutch	De uiterst korte geschiedenis van de mensheid
1982^ⓘTranslated by Zoran Milović	Croatian	Vrlo kratka priča o čovječanstvu^?Vrlo kratka prica o covjecanstvu Vrlo kratka pricha o chovjechanstvu

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist	Verif
Lilliput, November 1955	1955-11-00	ed. Editors of Lilliput					unknown^?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.	mag