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America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction
$12.25
Celebrating the centenary of his birth, Steinbeck's last published work is available once again, accompanied by his finest journalistic endeavors, including the newspaper articles that inspired his literary masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath, his writings on San Francisco, Monterey, and other location..
America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction (Pen...
$14.68
A Penguin ClassicMore than four decades after his death, John Steinbeck remains one of the nation's most beloved authors. Yet few know of his career as a journalist who covered world events from the Great Depression to Vietnam. Now, this distinctive collection offers a portrait of the artist as citi..
Burning Bright
$35.14
Burning Bright is a 1950 novella by John Steinbeck written as an experiment with producing a play in novel format. Rather than providing only the dialogue and brief stage directions as would be expected in a play, Steinbeck fleshes out the scenes with details of both the characters and the environme..
East of Eden (Oprah Book Club Series)
$9.93
East of Eden (Oprah Book Club Series) Author: Steinbeck, John Publisher: Penguin Books Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0142000655 ISBN-13: 9780142000656..
East of Eden (Oprah's Book Club)
$23.08
A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America’s most enduring authors, in a commemorative hardcover editionIn 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 f..
Las uvas de la ira: (Spanish language edition of T...
$14.20
Las uvas de la ira es un hito en la literatura norteamericana que explora el conflicto entre ricos y pobres, analiza la reacción feroz de un hombre contra la injusticia y el estoicismo de una mujer igualmente heróica, y refleja los horrores de la Gran Depresión. Aunque sigue la migración de miles pe..
Of Mice and Men
$8.26
A controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great DepressionThey 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 alienat..
Of Mice and Men (Penguin Great Books of the 20th C...
$41.56
While the powerlessness of the laboring class is a recurring theme in Steinbeck's work of the late 1930s, he narrowed his focus when composing "Of Mice and Men" (1937), creating an intimate portrait of two men facing a world marked by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy, and callousness. But t..
Of Mice and Men (Play) (DPS Acting Edition)
$12.80
Presents a dramatization of the tragic story of a friendship between two migrant workers, George and Lenny, and their dream of owning a farm. Author: Steinbeck, John Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc. Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0822208385 ISBN-13: 9780822208389..
Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and R...
$18.85
The collaboration of two friends-one a novelist, one a marine biologist-produced a volume in which fascinating popular science is woven into a narrative of man’s dreams, his ideals, and his accomplishments through the centuries. Sea of Cortez is one of those rare books that are all things to all rea..
Steinbeck Centennial boxed set
$152.03
The Centennial boxed set includes: East of Eden, The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, Cannery Row, The Pearl, and Travels with Charley in Search of America.@IAmWithSam Lennie came back into the cabin with that look on his face and I said, Lennie, did you kill another woman He told me he had done it..
Steinbeck in Vietnam: Dispatches from the War
$27.93
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 ..
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
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A modern retelling of the legendary Arthurian tales from one of the twentieth century s greatest writersMorte d Arthur was one of the first books that John Steinbeck enjoyed reading as a child, and it became a favorite story to read to his own children. Here now is Steinbeck s only work of fantasy l..
The Grapes of Wrath
$23.99
Product Description Recounts the travails of the Joad family as they struggle to reach California from Oklahoma during the Depression years. From Library Journal Journey with the Joads for 21 hours in this first unabridged version of Steinbeck's classic. Controversial, even shocking, when it was wri..
The Grapes of Wrath (Bloom's Modern Critical Inter...
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Set during the Great Depression, The Grapes of Wrath follows failed farmer Tom Joad and his family as they head from Oklahoma's Dust Bowl to the promised land of the West. This book presents a collection of essays that set the scene for an amplified study of this American classic. It contains introd..
The Grapes of Wrath: Text and Criticism; Revised E...
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John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression follows the western moevement of wone family and a nation in search of work and human dignity. This completely updated Viking Critical Library Edition of The Grapes of Wrath includes the full text of the novel, corrected in 1996, a..
The Log from the Sea of Cortez (Penguin Classics)
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A Penguin ClassicIn the two years after the 1939 publication of Steinbeck’s masterful The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck and his novel increasingly became the center of intense controversy and censorship. In search of a respite from the national stage, Steinbeck and his close friend, biologist Ed Ricket..
The Moon Is Down: A Play in Two Parts
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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 ClassicIn this masterful tale set in Norway during World War II, Steinbeck explores the effects of invasion on both the conquered and the..
The Pastures of Heaven (Twentieth-century Classics...
$11.33
A Penguin ClassicIn Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck’s beautifully rendered depictions of small yet fateful moments that transform ordinary lives, these twelve early stories introduce both the subject and style of artistic expression that recur in the most important works of his career. Each of the..
The Pearl (Centennial Edition)
$8.93
“There it lay, the great pearl, perfect as the moon.”One of Steinbeck’s most taught works, The Pearl is the story of the Mexican diver Kino, whose discovery of a magnificent pearl from the Gulf beds means the promise of a better life for his impoverished family. His dream blinds him to the greed and..
The Pearl (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century...
$15.92
"... based on a Mexican folk tale, The Pearl explores the secrets of man's nature, the darkest depths of evil, and the luminous possibilities of love"--Back cover. Author: Steinbeck, John Publisher: Perfection Learning Binding: library Language: English ISBN-10: 0812416430 ISBN-13: 9780812416435..
The Winter of Our Discontent (Penguin Classics)
$12.33
The final novel of one of America’s most beloved writers-a tale of degeneration, corruption, and spiritual crisisA Penguin ClassicIn awarding John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel committee stated that with The Winter of Our Discontent, he had “resumed his position as an indep..
Tortilla Flat
$29.17
Danny, a mule skinner during the First World War, returns to Tortilla Flat to enjoy the carefree and amoral life of the paisano Author: Steinbeck, John Publisher: Viking Adult Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0670721093 ISBN-13: 9780670721092..
Travels with Charley in Search of America
$8.70
An intimate journey across America, as told by one of its most beloved writersTo hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the light-these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had been wr..