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  • Of Mice and Men

    • ASIN: 0140177396
    • ISBN: 0140177396
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    A controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great Depression   They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in California's dusty vegetable ... [Read More]

  • The Pearl

    • ASIN: 014017737X
    • ISBN: 014017737X
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    “There it lay, the great pearl, perfect as the moon.”   Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf beds that once brought great wealth to the Kings of Spain and now provide Kino, Juana, and their infant son with meager subsistence. Then, on a day like any other, Kino emerges from the sea wi... [Read More]

  • The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    • ASIN: 0143105779
    • ISBN: 0143105779
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

    A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of Steinbeck's brilliant short novelsCollected here for the first time in a deluxe paperback volume are six of John Steinbeck's most widely read and beloved novels. From the tale of commitment, loneliness and hope in Of Mice and Men, to the tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society in Cannery ... [Read More]

  • Travels with Charley in Search of America

    • ASIN: B001BC6GN6
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

  • Once There Was a War (Penguin Classics)

    • ASIN: 0143104799
    • ISBN: 0143104799
    • Brand: Steinbeck, John/ Bowden, Mark (INT)
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

    A Penguin Classic“Age can never dull this kind of writing,” writes the Chicago Tribune of John Steinbeck’s dispatches from World War II, filed for the New York Herald Tribune in 1943, which vividly captured the human side of war. Writing from England in the midst of the London blitz, North Africa, and Italy, Steinbeck focuses on the people as... [Read More]

  • The Grapes of Wrath

    • UPC: 000143039431
    • ASIN: 0143039431
    • ISBN: 0143039431
    • Brand: Steinbeck, John/ Demott, Robert J. (INT)
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

  • The Moon Is Down

    • UPC: 664821366020
    • ASIN: 0140187464
    • ISBN: 0140187464
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

    Occupied by enemy troops, a small, peaceable town comes face-to-face with evil imposed from the outside—and betrayal born within the close-knit communityA Penguin Classic In this masterful tale set in Norway during World War II, Steinbeck explores the effects of invasion on both the conquered and the conquerors. As he delves into the emotions of ... [Read More]

  • East of Eden (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)

    • ASIN: 0140186395
    • ISBN: 9780140186390
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

    A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America’s most enduring authorsA Penguin Classic In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden “the first book,” and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California’s Salinas Valley, this sprawling and o... [Read More]

  • Cannery Row: (Centennial Edition)

    • ASIN: 014200068X
    • ISBN: 014200068X
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    Steinbeck's tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society, dependant on one another for both physical and emotional survival Unburdened by the material necessities of the more fortunate, the denizens of Cannery Row discover rewards unknown in more traditional society. Henry the painter sorts through junk lots for pieces of wood to... [Read More]

  • Of Mice and Men: A Play in Three Acts

    • UPC: 051488012009
    • ASIN: 0143117203
    • ISBN: 0143117203
    • Brand: Steinbeck, John
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    Celebrating its 75th anniversary, John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men remains one of America's most widely read and beloved novels. Here is Steinbeck’s dramatic adaptation of his novel-as-play, which received the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play in 1937-1938 and has featured a number of actors who have played the iconic roles o... [Read More]

  • Steinbeck: A Life in Letters by Steinbeck, John (1975) Hardcover

    • ASIN: 067066961X
    • ISBN: 067066961X
    • Brand: Viking
    • Manufacturer: Viking Adult

    For John Steinbeck, who hated the telephone, letter-writing was a preparation for work and a natural way for him to communicate his thoughts on people he liked and hated; on marriage, women, and children; on the condition of the world; and on his progress in learning his craft. Opening with letters written during Steinbeck's early years in Californ... [Read More]

  • Sweet Thursday (Penguin Classics)

    • ASIN: 0143039474
    • ISBN: 0143039474
    • Brand: Steinbeck, John/ DeMott, Robert (INT)
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

    A Penguin ClassicIn Monterey, on the California coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday, which is one of those days that are just naturally bad. Returning to the scene of Cannery Row—the weedy lots and junk heaps and flophouses of Monterey, John Steinbeck once more brings to life the denizens of a netherworld of laug... [Read More]

  • The Grapes Of Wrath

    • ASIN: B00A32CKYE

  • A Russian Journal (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)

    • ASIN: 0141180196
    • ISBN: 0141180196
    • Brand: Penguin Classics
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

    Steinbeck and Capa’s account of their journey through Cold War Russia is a classic piece of reportage and travel writing.A Penguin ClassicJust after the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe, Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribu... [Read More]

  • Cannery Row

    • UPC: 883929043514
    • ASIN: B00198X0XQ
    • Brand: Warner Brothers
    • Manufacturer: Warner Home Video

  • John Steinbeck : Novels and Stories, 1932-1937 : The Pastures of Heaven / To a God Unknown / Tortilla Flat / In Dubious Battle / Of Mice and Men (Library of America)

    • ASIN: 1883011019
    • ISBN: 1883011019
    • Brand: Library of America
    • Manufacturer: Library of America

    The Library of America presents for the first time in one volume Steinbeck’s early writings, which expressed his abiding concerns for community, social justice, and the elemental connection between nature and human society. In prose that blends the vernacular and the incantatory, the local and the mythic, these five works chart Steinbeck’s evol... [Read More]

  • The Wayward Bus (Penguin Classics)

    • ASIN: 0142437875
    • ISBN: 0142437875
    • Brand: Steinbeck, John/ Scharnhorst, Gary
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

    A Penguin ClassicIn his first novel to follow the publication of his enormous success, The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck’s vision comes wonderfully to life in this imaginative and unsentimental chronicle of a bus traveling California’s back roads, transporting the lost and the lonely, the good and the greedy, the stupid and the scheming, the beaut... [Read More]

  • John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath and Other Writings 1936-1941: The Grapes of Wrath, The Harvest Gypsies, The Long Valley, The Log from the Sea of Cortez (Library of America)

    • ASIN: 1883011159
    • ISBN: 1883011159
    • Brand: Library of America
    • Manufacturer: Library of America

    The second volume in The Library of America’s authoritative edition of John Steinbeck features his acknowledged masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath. Written in an incredibly compressed five-month period, the novel had an electrifying impact upon publication in 1939. Tracing the journey of the Joad family from the dust bowl of Oklahoma to the migran... [Read More]

  • Steinbeck in Vietnam: Dispatches from the War

    • ASIN: B00APK0T2O
    • Manufacturer: University of Virginia Press

    Although his career continued for almost three decades after the 1939 publication of The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck is still most closely associated with his Depression-era works of social struggle. But from Pearl Harbor on, he often wrote passionate accounts of America’s wars based on his own firsthand experience. Vietnam was no exception.T... [Read More]

  • The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    • ASIN: 0143105450
    • ISBN: 0143105450
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

    Steinbeck's only work of fantasy literature—in a  deluxe edition with a foreword by Christopher Paolini, New York Times bestselling author of Eragon, Eldest and BrisingrA Penguin Classic   Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur was the first book that John Steinbeck truly enjoyed reading as a child. Fascinated by Arthurian tales of adventure, knighthoo... [Read More]

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