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

    • ASIN: B002L4EX9C
    • 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]

  • 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]

  • 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 Grapes of Wrath

    • ASIN: B001BKTEZA
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

  • Camino Island: A Novel

    • ASIN: 1524797146
    • ISBN: 9781524797140
    • Manufacturer: Bantam

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A delightfully lighthearted caper . . . [a] fast-moving, entertaining tale.”—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette A gang of thieves stage a daring heist from a vault deep below Princeton University’s Firestone Library. Their loot is priceless, impossible to resist.         Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in t... [Read More]

  • East of Eden

    • ASIN: B001BC5HXG
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

  • John Steinbeck - Now That You Don't Have To Be Perfect - 11x14 Unframed Typography Book Page Print - Great Gift for Book Lovers, Also Makes a Great Gift Under $15

    • ASIN: B07GRQ8HT9
    • Brand: Personalized Signs by Lone Star Art
    • Size: Medium

    Bring an artistic twist to any room! This is a real photographic print, not just a simple inkjet print, and is sure to be a great addition to your decor. The original artwork of this print has been lovingly imagined and designed by an independent designer and illustrator.★ HOW FUN - This unique art is guaranteed to tie any place together and brin... [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]

  • Travels with Charley in Search of America

    • ASIN: B001BC6GN6
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

  • Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters

    • ASIN: 0140144188
    • ISBN: 0140144188
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    Each working day from January 29 to November 1, 1951, John Steinbeck warmed up to the work of writing East of Eden with a letter to the late Pascal Covici, his friend and editor at The Viking Press. It was his way, he said, of "getting my mental arm in shape to pitch a good game." Steinbeck's letters were written on the left-hand pages of a notebo... [Read More]

  • Cannery Row

    • ASIN: B001BC6GUO
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

  • Tortilla Flat (Penguin Twentieth-century Classics)

    • ASIN: 0140187405
    • ISBN: 0140187405
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

    "Steinbeck is an artists; and he tells the stories of these lovable thieves and adulterers with a gentle and poetic purity of heart and of prose." —New York Herald TribuneA Penguin Classic Adopting the structure and themes of the Arthurian legend, John Steinbeck created a “Camelot” on a shabby hillside above the town of Monterey, California,... [Read More]

  • A Separate Peace

    • ASIN: B00JN7BNR0
    • Brand: Unknown
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

    An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to World War II.Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of ... [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]

  • Red Mountain: A Novel

    • ASIN: B01MEEWFIC
    • Manufacturer: Sandy Run Press

    "Best book I've read in over 50 years... since A Tree Grows in Brooklyn." - LibraMystic*A Pulpwood Queens Book Club Selection and Amazon Charts BestsellerHow well do we really know each other?Red Mountain in eastern Washington is home to a community of eccentrics.Otis Till, the area's visionary winemaker, has been known to howl at the moon--fully n... [Read More]

  • The Grapes Of Wrath

    • ASIN: B00A32CKYE

  • Sweet Thursday (Penguin Classics)

    • ASIN: B001BC2ZTA
    • 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 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]

  • The Grapes of Wrath

    • UPC: 024543103301
    • ASIN: B0000DJZ8R
    • Brand: FONDA,HENRY
    • Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox

  • The Wayward Bus (Penguin Classics)

    • ASIN: B0030CHEX6
    • 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]

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