John Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck was an American writer. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception". He has been called "a giant of American letters."During his writing career, he authored 33 books, with one book coauthored alongside Edward F. Ricketts, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories. He is widely known for the comic novels Tortilla Flat (1935) and Cannery Row (1945), the multi-generation epic East of Eden (1952), and the novellas The Red Pony (1933) and Of Mice and Men (1937). The Pulitzer Prize–winning The Grapes of Wrath (1939) is considered Steinbeck's masterpiece and part of the American literary canon. By the 75th anniversary of its publishing date, it had sold 14 million copies.Most of Steinbeck's work is set in central California, particularly in the Salinas Valley and the California Coast Ranges region. His works frequently explored the themes of fate and injustice, especially as applied to downtrodden or everyman protagonists.
A fost odată un război
John Steinbeck
„Reportajele de război ale lui Steinbeck sînt memorabile nu atît datorită valorii lor istorice, cît puternicei note personale, profund umane, vitalității cu care e surprins efectul războiului asupra celor aflați fie pe un transportor de trupe, fie pe un aerodrom din Anglia, fie în spatele frontului. Decorul se schimbă, e cînd Anglia, cînd Africa de Nord, cînd Italia, dar din toate relatările răzbat același discernămînt, aceeași compasiune și înțelegere a omului de rînd ce caracterizează și ficțiunea lui Steinbeck. […] Aceste reportaje sînt niște povestiri la prima mînă despre tînăra Americă în război, istorisite de un povestitor inegalabil. Jurnalism de calitate, da, dar și literatură de calitate.” (Kirkus Reviews)
Al este del Edén
John Steinbeck
El mundo de las letras celebra este año el centenario del nacimiento de John Steinbeck , Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1962 , y el cincuentenario de la publicación de Al este del Edén , dos motivos más que suficientes para devolver a los lectores esta novela, una de las más conocidas de este autor, y en la que se inspiró Elia Kazan para la película del mismo título protagonizada por James Dean, que interpretó al personaje, mítico para toda una generación, de Cal Trask . Entre la guerra de secesión y la primera guerra mundial, dos familias viven a lo largo de tres generaciones en el lejano valle de Salinas. Tras acompañar a la familia Hamilton en su épico asentamiento en California, el lector penetra en el sofocante mundo de los Trask , en el que Adam , un hombre de costumbres estrictas y severas, intenta educar en el recto camino a sus hijos Aron y Cal , tras ser abandonado por su mujer, a quien nadie en la familia se atreve a nombrar. Aron es trabajador, obediente y cumplidor. Cal , inquieto y siempre insatisfecho, no soporta el peso del silencio en torno a su madre, cuyo carácter indomable cree él ―y secretamente también Adam ― que ha heredado; así pues, ya es inevitable la lucha soterrada por el reconocimiento del padre, cuyo rechazo hacia Cal conduce a éste a la más provocadora rebeldía. Un día, Cal se siente extrañamente atraído por la misteriosa Cathy Adams , que regenta el burdel más célebre de la región. A partir de ese instante, la maldición caerá sobre Cal , condenado irremisiblemente a permanecer al este de un elusivo Edén...
A Leste do Paraíso
John Steinbeck
Os solos férteis do vale de Salinas, na Califórnia, são o cenário deste grande fresco histórico que acompanha os destinos de duas famílias, os Trask e os Hamilton, desde os dias da Guerra Civil Americana ao pós-Primeira Guerra Mundial.
A inexplicabilidade do amor e as consequências criminosas da sua ausência estão no centro deste romance, publicado originalmente em 1952, onde John Steinbeck apresenta algumas das suas personagens mais cativantes. Enfrentando um percurso pejado de luta e de sofrimento que atravessa gerações, nas suas histórias ouve-se ecoar irremediavelmente a tragédia das palavras bíblicas e assiste-se a uma reencenação da queda de Adão e Eva e da rivalidade destrutiva entre Caim e Abel.
A Leste do Paraíso é uma obra de maturidade e de grande fôlego, uma história brutal e apaixonante, sobre a qual escreveu o próprio autor: «O assunto é o mesmo que cada homem tem utilizado como tema: a existência, o equilíbrio, a batalha e a vitória, na eterna guerra entre a sabedoria e a ignorância, a luz e a treva, o bem e o mal.
America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction
John Steinbeck
More 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 citizen, deeply engaged in the world around him. In addition to the complete text of Steinbeck's last published book, America and Americans, this volume brings together for the first time more than fifty of Steinbeck's finest essays and journalistic pieces on Salinas, Sag Harbor, Arthur Miller, Woody Guthrie, the Vietnam War and more. This edition is edited by Steinbeck scholar Susan Shillinglaw and Steinbeck biographer Jackson J. Benson.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
A Pérola
John Steinbeck
Baseado num conto popular mexicano, A Pérola constitui uma inesquecível parábola poética sobre as grandezas e as misérias do mundo tão contraditório em que vivemos. É, assim, a história comovente de uma pérola enorme, de como foi descoberta e de como se perdeu... levando com ela os sonhos bons e maus que representava, mas é também a história de uma família e da solidariedade especial entre uma mulher (Juana), um pobre pescador (Kino) e o filho de ambos (Coyotito).
Com uma obra literária em que predomina a denúncia da vida difícil a que é sujeito o subproletariado agrícola, John Steinbeck recebeu da Academia Sueca o Prémio Nobel de Literatura em 1962 com a seguinte menção: «Nunca pretendeu escrever para tranquilizar os leitores, entretê-los sem os escandalizar. Pelo contrário, os tópicos que escolheu eram sérios e denunciadores... A sua capacidade literária foi sempre adquirindo um ímpeto crescente.»
A Russian Journal
John Steinbeck
Just after the iron curtain fell on Eastern Europe John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer, Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune. This rare opportunity took the famous travellers not only to Moscow and Stalingrad - now Volgograd - but through the countryside of the Ukraine and the Caucasus. A RUSSIAN JOURNAL is the distillation of their journey and remains a remarkable memoir and unique historical document. Steinbeck and Capa recorded the grim realities of factory workers, government clerks, and peasants, as they emerged from the rubble of World War II. This is an intimate glimpse of two artists at the height of their powers, answering their need to document human struggle
As Vinhas da Ira
John Steinbeck
An alternate cover edition can be found here.
Esta obra, que valeu o prémio Pullitzer a John Steinbeck, trata do êxodo de uma família de lavradores que, vendo-se reduzida à miséria por uma tempestade de areia em Oklahoma, resolve emigrar para a Califórnia. A luta que todos os membros da família sustentam na sua exaustiva jornada contra os elementos e os homens e, até, contra o próprio meio de transporte, a coragem de que dão provas, a generosidade de alma que afirmam, a humaníssima capacidade de, apesar de tudo, fraternizarem uns com os outros e com os seus semelhantes trazem um sopro de epopeia, raro, mesmo hoje, em livros de idêntica ou parecida inspiração.
Bombs Away
John Steinbeck
A magnificent volume of short novels and an essential World War II report from one of America's great twentieth-century writersOn the heels of the enormous success of his masterwork The Grapes of Wrath-and at the height of the American war effort-John Steinbeck, one of the most prolific and influential literary figures of his generation, wrote Bombs Away, a nonfiction account of his experiences with U.S. Army Air Force bomber crews during World War II. Now, for the first time since its original publication in 1942, Penguin Classics presents this exclusive edition of Steinbeck's introduction to the then-nascent U.S. Army Air Force and its bomber crew-the essential core unit behind American air power that Steinbeck described as "the greatest team in the world."
Burning Bright
John Steinbeck
Written as a play in story form, this novel traces the story of a man ignorant of his own sterility, a wife who commits adultery to give her husband a child, the father of that child, and the outsider whose actions affect them all.
Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
John Steinbeck
Cannery Row is a book without much of a plot. Rather, it is an attempt to capture the feeling and people of a place, the cannery district of Monterey, California, which is populated by a mix of those down on their luck and those who choose for other reasons not to live "up the hill" in the more respectable area of town. The flow of the main plot is frequently interrupted by short vignettes that introduce us to various denizens of the Row, most of whom are not directly connected with the central story. These vignettes are often characterized by direct or indirect reference to extreme violence: suicides, corpses, and the cruelty of the natural world.
The "story" of Cannery Row follows the adventures of Mack and the boys, a group of unemployed yet resourceful men who inhabit a converted fish-meal shack on the edge of a vacant lot down on the Row.
Sweet Thursday is the sequel to Cannery Row.
Cup of Gold
John Steinbeck
From the mid-1650s through the 1660s, Henry Morgan, a pirate and outlaw of legendary viciousness, ruled the Spanish Main. He ravaged the coasts of Cuba and America, striking terror wherever he went. Morgan was obsessive. He had two driving ambitions: to possess the beautiful woman called La Santa Roja and to conquer Panama, the “cup of gold.” Steinbeck’s first novel and sole work of historical fiction, Cup of Gold is a lush, lyrical swashbuckling pirate fantasy, and sure to add new dimensions to readers’ perceptions of this all-American writer. This edition features an introduction by Susan F. Beegel.
Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, with Occasional Reference to History
John Steinbeck
This lush, lyrical fantasy is Steinbeck's sole work of historical fiction. Henry Morgan ruled the Spanish Main in the 1670s, ravaging the coasts of Cuba and America and striking terror wherever he went. His lust and greed knew no bounds, and he was utterly consumed by two passions; to possess the mysterious woman known as La Santa Roja, the Red Saint, and to conquer Panama and wrest 'the cup of gold' from Spanish hands.
Dagdrivergjengen
John Steinbeck
In the town of Tortilla Flat above beautiful Monterey lived a group of men called the paisanos. They were drunkards, thieves, ruffians, and vagabonds, but they were also surprisingly good at heart; requiring little more from life than friendship and a little wine. Among these paisanos were Danny, Pilon, Pablo, Jesus Maria, and Big Joe Portagee. When the First World War broke out, these paisanos decided to enlist in a fir of drunken patriotism.
De ratones y hombres
John Steinbeck
Es una novela ambientada en California y en la época de la Depresión. En este contexto, la historia de dos trabajadores temporeros que sueñan en vano con adquirir una pequeña granja adquiere un sentido trascendente. Y es que el dramático fracaso de las aspiraciones de George y Lennie, personajes unidos por estrechos lazos de amistad, no solo evidencia la fragilidad de sus sueños y el espejismo de la tierra de promisión americana, sino que pone al descubierto la amarga soledad en que una sociedad insolidaria abandona a los desheredados. La crudeza de la historia, con su estremecedor desenlace, queda no obstante atemperada por la ternura que destilan algunos personajes y por la profunda humanidad con que Steinbeck los trata.
Des Souris et des hommes
John Steinbeck
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« Les deux hommes levèrent les yeux car le rectangle de soleil de la porte s'était masqué. Debout, une jeune femme regardait dans la chambre. Elle avait de grosses lèvres enduites de rouge, et des yeux très écartés fortement maquillés. Ses ongles étaient rouges. Ses cheveux pendaient en grappes bouclées, comme des petites saucisses. Elle portait une robe de maison en coton, et des mules rouges, ornées de petits bouquets de plumes d'autruche rouges .»
Des souris et des hommes/Of Mice and Men: Nouvelle traduction
John Steinbeck
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East of Eden
John Steinbeck
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 often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families—the Trasks and the Hamiltons—whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.
Adam Trask came to California from the East to farm and raise his family on the new rich land. But the birth of his twins, Cal and Aaron, brings his wife to the brink of madness, and Adam is left alone to raise his boys to manhood. One boy thrives nurtured by the love of all those around him; the other grows up in loneliness enveloped by a mysterious darkness.
First published in 1952, East of Eden is the work in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love's absence. A masterpiece of Steinbeck's later years, East of Eden is a powerful and vastly ambitious novel that is at once a family saga and a modern retelling of the Book of Genesis.
East of Eden by John Steinbeck: A Timeless Tale of Family, Free Will, and the Eternal Struggle Between Good and Evil (Grapevine Edition)
John Steinbeck
Set in the rich farmland of California’s Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families—the Trasks and the Hamiltons—whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. Here Steinbeck created some of his most memorable characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity; the inexplicability of love; and the murderous consequences of love’s absence.
East of Eden - Sebelah Timur Eden (Buku 1)
John Steinbeck
East of Eden adalah kisah epik tentang kebaikan dan kejahatan, tentang kehendak bebas dan segala konsekuensinya. Dituturkan melalui perjalanan hidup dua keluarga––Trask dan Hamilton––yang takdirnya saling berkelindan hingga tiga generasi, di tanah pertanian di Salinas Valley, California.
Sering disebut sebagai penceritaan ulang modern kisah kejatuhan Adam dan Hawa, dan perseteruan Kain dan Habel, East of Eden merupakan karya masterpiece Steinbeck yang kompleks, indah, dan bermakna.
Érik a gyümölcs / Kék öböl (#1)
John Steinbeck
The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers.
First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman’s stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. At once a naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel, and transcendental gospel, Steinbeck’s powerful landmark novel is perhaps the most American of American Classics.
Fareler ve İnsanlar
John Steinbeck
Pulitzer ve Nobel Edebiyat Ödülü'nü kazanan John Steinbeck'in çağımızın toplumsal ve insani meselelerini ustalıkla resmettiği eserleri modern dünya edebiyatının başyapıtları arasında yer alır. Steinbeck romanlarında yalın ve keskin bir gerçeklik sunarken yine de her seferinde çarpıcı bir öykü ile çıkar okurunun karşısına. Tarihin bir kesitindeki dramı insani ayrıntıları kaçırmadan sergilerken, "tozpembe olmayan gerçekçi bir umudun" türküsünü dillendirir. Bu nedenle eserleri edebi değerleri kadar güncelliklerini de hiç yitirmemiştir.
Fareler ve İnsanlar, birbirine zıt karakterdeki iki mevsimlik tarım işçisinin, zeki George Milton ve onun güçlü kuvvetli ama akli dengesi bozuk yoldaşı Lennie Small'un öyküsünü anlatır. Küçük bir toprak satın alıp insanca bir hayat yaşamanın hayalini kuran bu ikilinin öyküsünde dostluk ve dayanışma duygusu önemli bir yer tutar. Steinbeck insanın insanla ilişkisini anlatmakla kalmaz, insanın doğayla ve toplumla kurduğu ilişkileri de konu eder bu destansı romanında. Kitabın ismine ilham veren Robert Burns şiirindeki gibi: "En iyi planları farelerin ve insanların / Sıkça ters gider..."
Flight
John Steinbeck
Paperback, 1979, Flight by John Steinbeck, A Tale Blazers Wraparound Book, 46pp.
Fructele maniei vol 1
John Steinbeck
In detalii reale si extrem de emotionante, John Steinbeck surprinde destinele unor oameni obisnuiti, care lupta din rasputeri sa-si pastreze demnitatea in fata unei crize sociale si economice acute. Portret al disputei amare intre cei puternici si cei slabi, al unui barbat inversunat impotriva nedreptatii si al unei femei de un stoicism rar intilnit, Fructele maniei ramine un punct de reper pentru literatura americana.
Fructele maniei vol 2
John Steinbeck
In detalii reale si extrem de emotionante, John Steinbeck surprinde destinele unor oameni obisnuiti, care lupta din rasputeri sa-si pastreze demnitatea in fata unei crize sociale si economice acute. Portret al disputei amare intre cei puternici si cei slabi, al unui barbat inversunat impotriva nedreptatii si al unei femei de un stoicism rar intilnit, Fructele maniei ramine un punct de reper pentru literatura americana.
Fructele mîniei
John Steinbeck
In momentul aparitiei romanului Fructele miniei, in 1939, America se lupta cu efectele Marii Crize Financiare. Personajele puse in scena de John Steinbeck, o familie scapatata din Oklahoma, nu au alta solutie decit sa-si lase in urma ferma si sa ia drumul pribegiei, alaturi de citeva animale strinse intr-o masina hirbuita. Un adevarat drum al fagaduintei, calea spre California este calea sperantei, pe care familia Joad o apuca impinsa de gindul la o viata mai buna. Ca in mai toate romanele lui Steinbeck, in spatele unei povesti aproape eroice sta placerea micilor detalii: limbajul plin de culoare, situatiile luate parca dintr-un film mut, hotarirea de neclintit a unui protagonist ce imprima ritmul unei povesti parca fara sfirsit.
„Fructele miniei este cel mai dur, dar si cel mai tandru roman al lui Steinbeck, cu istoria cea mai aspra, dar si cea mai dulce, mai aproape de realism si, pina la urma, cea mai melodramatica, cea mai furioasa, dar si cea mai idilica.” (Time)
„O carte care naste emotii puternice, indignare, furie, mila. Un document al protestului si al compasiunii, ca o poveste ce arde sa fie spusa, ca o carte ce tinjeste dupa cititorul ei.” (The Nation)
Furore
John Steinbeck
Pietra miliare della letteratura americana, Furore è un romanzo mitico, pubblicato negli Stati Uniti nel 1939 e coraggiosamente proposto in Italia da Valentino Bompiani l’anno seguente. Il libro fu perseguitato dalla censura fascista e solo ora, dopo più di 70 anni, vede la luce la prima edizione integrale, nella nuova traduzione di Sergio Claudio Perroni. Una versione basata sul testo inglese della Centennial Edition dell’opera di Steinbeck, che restituisce finalmente ai lettori la forza e la modernità della scrittura del Premio Nobel per la Letteratura 1962. Nell’odissea della famiglia Joad sfrattata dalla sua casa e dalla sua terra, in penosa marcia verso la California, lungo la Route 66 come migliaia e migliaia di americani, rivive la trasformazione di un’intera nazione. L’impatto amaro con la terra promessa dove la manodopera è sfruttata e mal pagata, dove ciascuno porta con sé la propria miseria “come un marchio d’infamia”. Al tempo stesso romanzo di viaggio e ritratto epico della lotta dell’uomo contro l’ingiustizia, Furore è forse il più americano dei classici americani, da leggere oggi per la prima volta in tutta la sua bellezza.
Homes i gatolins, Batxillerat. Material auxiliar
John Steinbeck
Rare book
Hrozny hněvu
John Steinbeck
Rozsáhlý sociální román zobrazuje život amerických zbídačelých farmářů z Oklahomy, putujících v době hospodářské krize 30. let za výdělkem. Farmáři, kterým banky vyvlastnily půdu a vyhnaly je z jejich domovů, se vydávají na tragickou pouť za prací do Kalifornie. Dílo je označováno za jeden z největších sociálních románů 20. století.
Iarna vrajbei noastre
John Steinbeck
In 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 independent expounder of the truth, with an unbiased instinct for what is genuinely American.”
Ethan Allen Hawley, the protagonist of the novel, works as a clerk in a grocery store that his family once owned. With the decline in their status, his wife is restless & his teenage children are hungry for the tantalizing material comforts he cannot provide. Then one day, in a moment of moral crisis, Ethan decides to take a holiday from his own scrupulous standards.
İnci
John Steinbeck
Librarian's note: Alternate cover edition
Pulitzer ve Nobel Edebiyat Ödülü’ne layık görülen John Steinbeck’in çağımızın toplumsal ve insani meselelerini ustalıkla resmettiği eserleri modern dünya edebiyatının başyapıtları arasında yer alır. Tomris Uyar’ın sunuş yazısında belirttiği gibi, “İnsanoğlunun umudunun, var olma direncinin seyreldiği bir tarih anında olanca görkemiyle gerçek umudun türküsünü söylemiştir. Tozpembe olmayan gerçekçi bir umudun.” Bu nedenle eserleri edebi değerleri kadar güncelliklerini de hiç yitirmemiştir.
Bir Meksika halk hikâyesinden esinlenmiş İnci, bir zamanlar İspanya Kralı’na büyük zenginlikler getiren bir koyda yaşayan fakir bir inci avcısının, Kino’nun ve ailesinin hikâyesini anlatır. Kino’nun çocuğunu kurtarmak umuduyla daldığı denizden çıkardığı eşi benzeri görülmemiş inci, yalnızca umut değil yıkım da getirecektir. İncinin özü insanların özüne; Kino’nun kulaklarında çınlayan ve kasabaya yayılan İncinin Türküsü, ailenin, kötülüğün, umudun ve düşmanlığın türküsüne karışacaktır.
Steinbeck, Kino’nun derinliklerden söküp çıkardığı inci ile içinde yaşadığımız dünyaya ve insanın dramına ışık tutuyor.
In Dubious Battle
John Steinbeck
At once a relentlessly fast-paced, admirably observed novel of social unrest and the story of a young man’s struggle for identity, In Dubious Battle is set in the California apple country, where a strike by migrant workers against rapacious landowners spirals out of control. Caught in the upheaval is Jim Nolan, a once aimless man who finds himself in the course of the strike.
I nomadi
John Steinbeck
Nel 1936, nel pieno della Grande depressione, il San Francisco News commissiona a John Steinbeck una serie di articoli sulla condizione dei braccianti agricoli immigrati in California. Sono americani del Midwest, colpiti dalla crisi e costretti a fuggire dalle tempeste di sabbia della Dust Bowl. Reduce dal grande successo di Pian della Tortilla, Steinbeck sale su un furgone da panettiere e inizia il suo viaggio fra le vallate della California. Osserva le strade riempirsi di camioncini sgangherati, carichi di fantasmi vestiti di stracci e diretti alle piantagioni di uva, mele e cotone. Si imbatte in un'umanità prostrata, sfinita dal lavoro, umiliata. Annota nei suoi taccuini la vita fragile e penosa trascorsa in baraccopoli di latta, brandelli di stoffa e cartone, che si sciolgono sotto la pioggia. Incontra famiglie, un tempo orgogliose, scivolate nella povertà più amara e in un'apatia senza ritorno dopo aver perso i propri figli. E traccia il negativo fotografico del mito della frontiera, dove all'epopea del pioniere si sostituisce il destino tragico di un popolo di senza terra Ma Steinbeck, nemmeno di fronte al vortice più fondo del degrado, smette di cercare la luce di una soluzione, di denunciare con il coraggio del cronista d'inchiesta e l'avventatezza del poeta le responsabilità dei latifondisti e le connivenze politiche, e di indicare gli esempi felici in cui l'abiezione cede il posto al riscatto.
Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters
John Steinbeck
Each working day from January 29 to November 1, 1951, John Steinbeck warmed up to the work of writing East of Eden and a letter to the late Pascal Covici, his friend and editor of 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-handed pages of a notebook in which the facing pages would be filled with the text of East of Eden. They touched on many subjects - story arguements, trial flights of workmanship, concern for his sons.
Part autobiography, part writer's workshop, these letters offer an illuminating perspective on Steinbeck's creative process, and a fascinating glimpse of Steinbeck, the private man.
Jurnal rusesc
John Steinbeck
Aparut pentru prima data in 1948, Jurnal rusesc este relatarea unei calatorii inedite facute de John Steinbeck in Uniunea Sovietica in anii de inceput ai Razboiului Rece. Insotit de fotograful Robert Capa, romancierul american viziteaza Moscova, dar calatoreste si in alte locuri din U.R.S.S.: ajunge in Stalingradul distrus de razboi, viziteaza Kievul si capitala georgiana Tbilisi si e oaspetele unor colhozuri sovietice.
Intentia declarata a scriitorului, de a descrie cu obiectivitate o tara straina, necunoscuta si amenintatoare, etichetata in Statele Unite drept „dusman” ideologic, are ca rezultat o relatare superba, cu valoare istorica si literara. In Jurnal rusesc obiectivitatea jurnalistica se impleteste cu talentul narativ al prozatorului, iar comentariul aparent inocent, umorul subtil si ironia rafinata dau un plus de farmec unei descrieri empatice, plina de intelegere, a unei lumi altfel greu de inteles.
„Steinbeck este un om cu convingeri conservatoare si, in plus, recent a deviat si mai mult spre dreapta. De aceea trebuie sa-l abordam cu multa precautie si sa evitam sa-i aratam ceva care ne-ar putea afecta.“ (fragment preluat dintr-un raport KGB)
„Vamesul… a scos din buzunarul tunicii un pachetel invelit in hirtie de ziar si a extras din el o stampila de cauciuc. Asta era tot ce avea – fara nici o tusiera… Dintr-un alt buzunar al tunicii a scos un creion chimic, iar apoi, dupa ce a umezit stampila cu limba, a frecat creionul pe cauciuc si a aplicat stampila pe documentele noastre. Fara nici un efect. A incercat din nou. Iar fara nici un efect. Stampila de cauciuc n-a lasat nici macar o urma, oricit de vaga. Ca sa-l ajutam, ne-am scos stilourile incarcate, ne-am inmuiat degetele in cerneala si ni le-am sters de stampila. Pina la urma stampila s-a indurat sa lase urme, ba chiar unele frumoase. Vamesul a invelit-o din nou in hirtia de ziar si a virit-o la loc in buzunar, ne-a strins mina foarte calduros, apoi a coborit din avion.“ (John Steinbeck)
„...americanii si rusii seamana foarte mult in doua privinte: ambele popoare se dau in vint dupa masinarii si ambele sint pasionate de structurile uriase. Poate ca rusii admira cel mai mult America pentru uzinele Ford si pentru Empire State Building.“ (John Steinbeck)
La corriera stravagante
John Steinbeck
Quando La corriera stravagante venne pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1947, la critica americana ed europea rimasero sbalordite perché John Steinbeck, già noto e apprezzato come autore di romanzi socialmente impegnati (come Furore e Uomini e topi) sembrava contraddire se stesso. Le avventure di una corriera e dei suoi passeggeri eccentrici, bloccati nel verde delle vallate californiane, ci restituiscono ancora oggi intatta la loro carica bizzarra e permettono di conoscere uno Steinbeck leggero, sensuale e vitale, forse nella sua vena più felice e ironica.
La luna se ha puesto
John Steinbeck
Inspirada en las luchas ideológicas y los conflictos armados de nuestro tiempo, la novela recrea el tenso ambiente de un pueblo recién invadido. En una época imprecisa, un pueblo sin localización concreta y un ejército anónimo protagonizan una guerra que bien pudiera ser cualquiera. Se trata del drama de unos vencedores que se saben vencidos, que pueden matar pero no imponerse, que se abruman frente a la enconada hostilidad, la fingida sumisión, la solapada resistencia y por último, la violencia liberadora de un pueblo que se considera independiente. La luna siempre vuelve a salir para los pueblos que resisten, nos dice el autor, mediante una escritura épica que se vuelve contundente en su propia sencillez.
La perla
John Steinbeck
Sulla perla trovata in fondo al mare un pescatore messicano ha costruito il sogno di una vita migliore, il riscatto dalla miseria e dalla fatica. L’inquietudine e le passioni suscitate da questo fugace tocco della fortuna sconvolgono la sua vita, quella di sua moglie e del suo bambino. Contro la violenza non basta più l’amore di Juana, né la solidarietà di alcuni poveri pescatori che si accontenteranno di poter vedere la fortuna da vicino. Dalla grande fantastica avventura, Kino e i suoi torneranno alla fatica di tutti i giorni senza nemmeno quell’unico bene che la vita aveva loro dato: la pace con se stessi.
La perle
John Steinbeck
Jouant de sa lame comme d'un levier, il le fit céder et le coquillage s'ouvrit. Les lèvres de chair se crispèrent puis se détendirent. Kino souleva le repli et la perle était là, la grosse perle, parfaite comme une lune. Elle accrochait la lumière, la purifiait et la renvoyait dans une incandescence argentée. Elle était aussi grosse qu'un œuf de mouette. C'était plus la grosse perle du monde.
La răsărit de Eden
John Steinbeck
Una dintre capodoperele secolului XX, La răsărit de Eden reconstruiește povestea biblică a lui Cain și Abel în decorul Văii Salinas din California. Romanul, a cărui acțiune se întinde din timpul Războiului Civil american pînă la sfârșitul Primului Război Mondial, urmărește conflictele dintre două generații de frați, incepînd cu Adam și Charles Trask.
„Scriu această carte pentru băieții mei... Le voi istorisi una dintre cele mai mărețe povești, poate cea mai mare dintre toate − o poveste despre bine și rău, despre putere și nevolnicie, despre iubire și ură, despre frumusețe și hidoșenie... este singura carte pe care am scris-o vreodată.“ (John Steinbeck)
La răsărit de Eden (La răsărit de Eden, #1)
John Steinbeck
Una dintre capodoperele secolului XX, La rasarit de Eden reconstruieste povestea biblica a lui Cain si Abel in decorul Vaii Salinas din California. Romanul, a carui actiune se intinde din timpul Razboiului Civil american pina la sfirsitul Primului Razboi Mondial, urmareste conflictele dintre doua generatii de frati, incepind cu Adam si Charles Trask.
„Scriu aceasta carte pentru baietii mei... Le voi istorisi una dintre cele mai marete povesti, poate cea mai mare dintre toate – o poveste despre bine si rau, despre putere si nevolnicie, despre iubire si ura, despre frumusete si hidosenie... este singura carte pe care am scris-o vreodata.” (John Steinbeck)
La răsărit de Eden vol II
John Steinbeck
Set in the rich farmland of California’s Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families—the Trasks and the Hamiltons—whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. Here Steinbeck created some of his most memorable characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity; the inexplicability of love; and the murderous consequences of love’s absence.
Las uvas de la ira
John Steinbeck
Forzados por la sequía y el acoso de los bancos, los Joad, una familia de granjeros de la Oklahoma rural y empobrecida de los años treinta, emprenden un atribulado éxodo a lo largo de la carretera 66 con la intención de buscar trabajo y una vida digna en California. Si atrás dejan campos asolados por las tormentas de polvo, en el camino sólo encuentran penuria, hambre, hostilidad en los pueblos por los que pasan... Pero ni las advertencias de quienes regresan, pobres y desengañados, ni la muerte y la progresiva desintegración de la familia, bastan para que cejen en su empeño. Y, en su afán de supervivencia, conservan la entereza y la dignidad frente a la miseria moral de quienes se aprovechan de la miseria real. Posiblemente haya que huir del infierno para descubrir que no existe la tierra prometida.
La valle dell'Eden
John Steinbeck
In un moderno Eden, la valle percorsa dal fiume Salinas, nella California settentrionale, si intrecciano le complesse vicende di varie generazioni, gli Hamilton e i Trask. È un mondo primitivo e pagano, popolato da personaggi - contadini e sognatori, uomini e donne simboli del bene o del male - dietro i quali agiscono conflitti primordiali, ataviche miserie che si tramandano di padre in figlio come una forza acuta e invincibile. Una saga familiare che tra odi e antagonismi scorre parallela ai grandi momenti della storia americana, dalla guerra civile al primo conflitto mondiale. Scritto nel 1952, soggetto dell'omonimo film di Elia Kazan (1955) interpretato da James Dean, "La valle dell'Eden" è una sorta di summa delle tematiche affrontate da Steinbeck nel corso della sua lunga attività letteraria. A tinte forti lo scrittore californiano dipinge un affresco in cui realismo e poesia, simbolismo e humour fanno da calibrato supporto alla denuncia degli effetti di quelle pulsioni violente e irrazionali che la coscienza contemporanea vorrebbe negare e alla visione critica di una società fattasi con il trascorrere dei decenni sempre più pessimistica.
Le gesta di Re Artù e dei suoi nobili cavalieri
John Steinbeck
Per molto tempo ho desiderato trasferire nella lingua di oggi le storie diArtù e dei suoi cavalieri... scrive Steinbeck nella premessa a questo libro.Ed ecco, in queste pagine, le affascinanti avventure di Re Artù, di Ginevra,di Lancillotto e di tanti altri personaggi del ciclo della "Tavola rotonda".
Los crisantemos
John Steinbeck
Esta pequeña obra maestra de Steinbeck retrata la vida de Elisa Allen, una mujer fuerte y apasionada, que lleva una existencia sin brillo, dedicada a su hogar. Casada con un granjero de California, su única ilusión y orgullo es el cultivo de sus flores. La aparición de un buhonero le hará cuestionarse, en cierto modo, su condición de mujer.
Aparecido por primera vez en 1937 en la revista Harper, el autor norteamericano nos habla de la cuestión del género de una manera sutil y delicada. Es un momento en el que el mundo de las mujeres está dominado por los hombres, que impiden su realización personal, social y sexual.
El simbolismo que subyace a lo largo de toda la obra hace que sea uno de los relatos cortos más bellos e imprescindibles del ganador del Premio Nobel en 1962.
Myszy i ludzie
John Steinbeck
Piękna opowieść o bezwarunkowej przyjaźni, ludzkich tęsknotach i marzeniach.
George Milton i Lennie Small to niezwykły tandem przyjaciół. George jest silnym mężczyzną, a podążający w ślad za nim Lennie – upośledzonym gigantem o umysłowości małego dziecka. Niezdarny i nieświadomy własnej siły fizycznej nie potrafi dostosować się do społecznych norm i co chwila sprowadza na siebie i George’a mniejsze lub większe nieszczęścia. Nie mogąc znaleźć dla siebie miejsca, przyjaciele przemierzają pogrążone w Wielkim Kryzysie Stany w poszukiwaniu zarobku i akceptacji. Ich marzeniem i celem, do którego dążą, jest własna farma, na której mogliby wspólnie hodować króliki.
„Myszy i ludzie” to jedno z najznakomitszych dzieł literackich Steinbecka. To powieść tak złożona, że wymyka się wszelkim jednoznacznym interpretacjom. Przede wszystkim jest piękną historią wspaniałej przyjaźni i poświęcenia, opowieścią o skomplikowanych relacjach, ludzkich tęsknotach i marzeniach. Ale także parabolą losu człowieka, rodzajem współczesnej baśni dla dorosłych.
Of Men and Their Making
John Steinbeck
Paperback. Pub Date :2003-07-03 448 English Penguin Classics Steinbecks writing was fuelled by a need to observe things firsthand. whether as a journalist or novelist. The huge success of THE GRAPES OF WRATH enabled him to travel the world. ceaselessly writing about the great events of each decade. This collection brings together the greatest of those dispatches - from countries as diverse as Vietnam. Britain. Morocco and Italy. In addition. it reproduces America and the Americans. a gripping account of the US in the 1960s based on Steinbecks observations on racism. moral decline & the environment.The extremely enjoyable book makes an important point about Steinbecks oeuvre. showing just how important journalism was to his career as a writer.
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
“I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why.”
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 fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. But George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own.
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, creating an intimate portrait of two men facing a world marked by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy, and callousness. But though the scope is narrow, the theme is universal: a friendship and a shared dream that makes an individual's existence meaningful.
A unique perspective on life's hardships, this story has achieved the status of timeless classic due to its remarkable success as a novel, a Broadway play, and three acclaimed films.
Of Mice and Men & Cannery Row
John Steinbeck
Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 014004891X (ISBN13: 9780140048919)
Of Mice and Men - Tikus dan Manusia
John Steinbeck
Suara George menjadi lebih dalam. Ia mengulangi kata-katanya dengan berirama, seolah ia sudah begitu sering mengucapkan kata-kata ini. "Orang-orang seperti kita, yang bekerja di peternakan, adalah orang-orang paling kesepian di dunia. Mereka tidak punya keluarga. Mereka tidak cocok di tempat mana pun. Mereka datang ke peternakan dan bekerja keras lalu pergi ke kota dan menghamburkan hasil kerja keras mereka, lalu setelahnya mereka banting tulang lagi di peternakan lain. Mereka tidak punya cita-cita."
Kisah kontroversial tentang persahabatan dan tragedi pada masa-masa Depresi Besar. Mereka pasangan yang tidak lazim. George bertubuh kecil, berwajah muram; Lennie bertubuh besar dan pikirannya seperti anak kecil. Mereka adalah keluarga bagi satu sama lain, saling bantu, saling menjaga di tengah kehidupan berat sebagai pekerja musiman. Mereka punya mimpi: ingin membeli sepetak tanah untuk ditanami, dan pondok kecil. Ingin menjadi tuan atas diri sendiri. Tetapi nasib berkata lain.
Once There Was a War
John Steinbeck
Nobel laureate John Steinbeck's bracing from-the-frontlines account of World War II-now with a new cover and introduction** In 1943 John Steinbeck was on assignment for The New York Herald Tribune, writing from Italy and North Africa, and from England in the midst of the London blitz. In his dispatches he focuses on the human-scale effect of the war, portraying everyone from the guys in a bomber crew to Bob Hope on his USO tour and even fighting alongside soldiers behind enemy lines. Taken together, these writings create an indelible portrait of life in wartime.
Perla
John Steinbeck
Perla svetovej prózy. Krehký príbeh nekonečnej ľudskej lásky, no zároveň aj nenávisti, túžby po bohatstve, a konečne – tragického rozčarovania nad jeho pominuteľnosťou.
Poneiul roșu
John Steinbeck
„In Poneiul rosu se remarca finetea artei lui Steinbeck, iar valoarea cartii sale se datoreaza in mare masura si faptului evident ca autorul cunoaste in detaliu locul despre care scrie. E un bun cunoscator al cailor, stie toate amanuntele despre ei, stie ce se intimpla in mintea acestora – si e cu certitudine si un bun cunoscator al copiilor, e incintat de ei, altfel n-ar fi reusit sa-l descrie pe Jody asa cum a facut-o.” (The New York Sun)
Positano
John Steinbeck
Saint Katy the Virgin
John Steinbeck
Roark is a bad man. His pig is a bad pig. They match in devilish temperament and violent deeds. Roark laughs at a drowned monk; his pig eats its own young and turns a boar sterile. As a spiteful tithe, the pig is given to the local monastery. The pig becomes a Christian. The pig is Saint Katy the Virgin. Fantastical and farcical, this short story parodies religious tropes and stereotypes. With a lively imagination and piercing wit, John Steinbeck delivers an absurd tale that amuses and entertains whilst asking powerful, revealing questions.
Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research
John Steinbeck
The collaboration of two friends-one a novelist, 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 readers. Actually the record of a brief collecting expedition in the lonely Gulf of California, it will be science to the scientist, philosophy to the philosopher, and to the average man an adventure in living and thinking. Sea of Cortez is a book to be read and remembered on two levels. It is a journey through a remote and beautiful corner of the world, a diary filled with the daily excitements and triumphs of skillful and energetic men. It is also an invitation to see the world anew from a fresh vantage point and perhaps with a broader and more understanding spirit.
Sea of Cortez includes the narrative of the journey plus pictures and detailed descriptions of the species collected by Steinbeck and Ricketts. It does not include the essay “About Ed Ricketts.” (See also Log from the Sea of Cortez.)
Siçanlar və Adamlar
John Steinbeck
The compelling story of two outsiders striving to find their place in an unforgiving world. Drifters in search of work, George and his simple-minded friend Lennie have nothing in the world except each other and a dream--a dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventually they find work on a ranch in California’s Salinas Valley, but their hopes are doomed as Lennie, struggling against extreme cruelty, misunderstanding and feelings of jealousy, becomes a victim of his own strength. Tackling universal themes such as the friendship of a shared vision, and giving voice to America’s lonely and dispossessed, Of Mice and Men has proved one of Steinbeck’s most popular works, achieving success as a novel, a Broadway play and three acclaimed films.
Şoareci şi oameni
John Steinbeck
Soareci si oameni, unul dintre romanele clasice ale literaturii secolului trecut, este o poveste cu nuante parabolice despre prietenie si destin. Personajele centrale sint doi lucratori sezonieri, George Milton, un tinar inteligent si inimos, si Lennie Small, un urias naiv, cu o forta incontrolabila si o intirziere mentala ce il face sa semene cu un copil mare. Cei doi barbati, a caror induiosatoare relatie de prietenie ajunge sa semene a dependenta, se angajeaza ca lucratori la o ferma. Ei au un vis, un ideal, sa stringa bani din care sa-si cumpere un loc al lor, unde sa traiasca „din belsugu’ pamintului”. Insa o serie de intimplari tragice, provocate de naivitatea lui Lennie, de neputinta lui de a distinge raul de bine, le naruie sperantele.
--back cover
Steinbeck: A Life in Letters
John Steinbeck
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 California, and closing with a 1968 note written in Sag Harbor, New York, Steinbeck: A Life in Letters reveals the inner thoughts and rough character of this American author as nothing else has and as nothing else ever will.
Strada Sardinelor (Cannery Row, #1)
John Steinbeck
In the din and stink that is Cannery Row a colourful blend of misfits – gamblers, whores, drunks, bums, and artists – survive side by side in a jumble of adventure and mischief. Doc, who owns the laboratory, is the fount of all generosity and wisdom. Everybody wants to do something nice for Doc: the trouble is, he always ends up paying. Packed with invention and joie de vivre, Cannery Row is Steinbeck's high-spirited tribute to his native California.
Sweet Thursday (Cannery Row, #2)
John Steinbeck
In 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 laughter and tears from Fauna, new headmistress of the local brothel, to Hazel, a bum whose mother must have wanted a daughter.
Ten oosten van Eden
John Steinbeck
See English description.
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
John Steinbeck
Steinbeck's first posthumously published work, The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights is a reinterpretation of tales from Malory's Morte d'Arthur. In this highly successful attempt to render Malory into Modern English, Steinbeck recreated the rhythm and tone of the original Middle English.
The Chrysanthemums
John Steinbeck
Elisa Allen is tending her chrysanthemums. Strong, with a handsome face she skilfully and proudly cultivates the best in the valley. Tonight, her husband is taking her to town. While she works, a squeak of heels and a plod of hoofs bring a curious vehicle, curiously drawn: a tradesman looking for directions and a job. He is met with curt replies and a hardened resistance. Then he notices her chrysanthemums. With his characteristic insight and evocative language, John Steinbeck creates a short story of a brief but striking encounter. Set in Salinas Valley, where he grew up, it dissects the myriad complexities of humanity, society and hidden longings.' to 'Elisa Allen is tending her chrysanthemums. Strong, with a handsome face she skilfully and proudly cultivates the best in the valley. Tonight, her husband is taking her to town. While she works, a squeak of heels and a plod of hoofs bring a curious vehicle, curiously a tradesman looking for directions and a job. He is met with curt replies and a hardened resistance. Then he notices her chrysanthemums. With his characteristic insight and evocative language, John Steinbeck creates a short story of a brief but striking encounter. Set in Salinas Valley, where he grew up, it dissects the myriad complexities of humanity, society and hidden longings.
The Forgotten Village: Life in a Mexican Village
John Steinbeck
The novelist who wrote The Grapes of Wrath and the director who produced Crisis and Lights Out in Europe combined their superb talents to tell the story of the coming of modern medicine to the natives of Mexico. There have been several notable examples of this pen-camera method of narration, but The Forgotten Village is unique among them in that Steinbeck wrote the text before a single picture was shot. The book and the movie from which The Forgotten Village was made have a continuity and a dramatic growth not to be found in typical documentary films of the time.
From this wealth of pictures, 136 photographs were selected for their intrinsic beauty and for the graceful harmony with which they accompany Steinbeck’s text. This new script-photograph technique of narration conveys its ideas with unexcelled brilliance and immediacy. In the hands of such master storytellers as Steinbeck and Kline, it makes the reader catch his breath.
The Grapes of Warth
John Steinbeck
The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers.
First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman’s stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. At once a naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel, and transcendental gospel, Steinbeck’s powerful landmark novel is perhaps the most American of American Classics.
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers.
First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman’s stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. At once a naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel, and transcendental gospel, Steinbeck’s powerful landmark novel is perhaps the most American of American Classics.
The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to the Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
Gathered in this important volume are seven newspaper articles on migrant farm workers that John Steinbeck wrote for The San Francisco News in 1936, three years before The Grapes of Wrath. With the inquisitiveness of an investigative reporter and the emotional power of a novelist in his prime, Steinbeck toured the squatters' camps and Hoovervilles of California. The Harvest Gypsies gives us an eyewitness account of the horrendous Dust Bowl migration, a major event in California history, and provides the factual foundation for Steinbeck’s masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath. Included are twenty-two photographs by Dorothea Lange and others, many of which accompanied Steinbeck's original articles.
The Log from the Sea of Cortez
John Steinbeck
In 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 Ricketts, embarked on a month long marine specimen-collecting expedition in the Gulf of California, which resulted in their collaboration on the Sea of Cortez. In 1951, after Ricketts’ death, Steinbeck reissued his narrative portion of the work in memory of his friend and the inspiration for Cannery Row’s “Doc”. This exciting day-by-day account of their journey together is a rare blend of science, philosophy, and high-spirited adventure. This edition features an introduction by Richard Astro.
The Long Valley
John Steinbeck
First published in 1938, this volume of stories collected with the encouragement of his longtime editor Pascal Covici serves as a wonderful introduction to the work of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck. Set in the beautiful Salinas Valley of California, where simple people farm the land and struggle to find a place for themselves in the world, these stories reflect Steinbeck’s characteristic interests: the tensions between town and country, laborers and owners, past and present. Included here are the O. Henry Prize-winning story “The Murder”; “The Chrysanthemums,” perhaps Steinbeck’s most challenging story, both personally and artistically; “Flight,” “The Snake,” “The White Quail,” and the classic tales of “The Red Pony.”
The Moon Is Down
John Steinbeck
Taken by surprise, a small coastal town is overrun by an invading army with little resistance. The town is important because it is a port that serves a large coal mine. Colonel Lanser, the head of the invading battalion, along with his staff establishes his HQ in the house of the democratically elected and popular Mayor Orden.
As the reality of occupation sinks in and the weather turns bleak, with the snows beginning earlier than usual, the "simple, peaceful people" of the town are angry and confused. Colonel Lanser, a veteran of many wars, tries to operate under a veil of civility and law, but in his heart he knows that "there are no peaceful people" amongst those whose freedom has been taken away by force. The veil is soon torn apart when Alexander Morden, an erstwhile alderman and "a free man," is ordered to work in the mine. He strikes out at Captain Loft with a pick axe, but Captain Bentick steps into its path and dies of it. After a summary trial, Morden is executed by a firing squad. This incident catalyzes the people of the town and they settle into "a slow, silent, waiting revenge." Sections of the railroad linking the port with the mine get damaged regularly, the machinery breaks down often, and the dynamo of the electricity generators gets short circuited. Whenever a soldier relaxes his guard, drinks or goes out with a woman, he is killed. Mayor Orden stands by his people, and tries to explain to Col. Lanser that his goal – "to break man’s spirit permanently" – is impossible.
The cold weather and the constant fear weighs heavy on the occupying force, many of whom wish the war to end so that they can return home. They realize the futility of the war and that "the flies have conquered the flypaper." Some members of the resistance escape to England and ask the English for explosives so that the townspeople can intensify their efforts. English planes parachute-drop small packages containing dynamite sticks and chocolates all around the town. In a state of panic, the army takes the Mayor and his friend Dr. Winter, the town doctor and historian, hostage and lets it be known that any action from resistance will lead to their execution. Mayor Orden knows that nothing can stop his people and that his death is imminent. He tells his wife that while he can be killed, the idea of Mayor (and freedom and democracy) is beyond the reach of any army. Before his execution, Mayor Orden reminds Dr. Winter of the dialogues of Socrates in the Apology, a part he played in the high school play, and tells him to make sure that the debt is repaid to the army, i.e., that the resistance is continued.
The Pastures of Heaven
John Steinbeck
Each of these delightful interconnected tales is devoted to a family living in a fertile valley on the outskirts of Monterey, California, and the effects that one particular family has on them all. Steinbeck tackles two important literary traditions here; American naturalism, with its focus on the conflict between natural instincts and the demand to conform to society's norms, and the short story cycle. Set in the heart of 'Steinbeck land', the lush Californian valleys.
The Pearl
John Steinbeck
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 with a pearl as large as a sea gull’s egg, as “perfect as the moon.” With the pearl comes hope, the promise of comfort and of security…
A story of classic simplicity, based on a Mexican folk tale, The Pearl explores the secrets of man’s nature, greed, the darkest depths of evil, and the luminous possibilities of love.
The Red Pony
John Steinbeck
Young Jody Tiflin lives on his father's California ranch. He is thrilled when his father gives him a red pony, and later promises him the colt of a bay mare. Both these gifts bring joy to Jody's life--but tragedy soon follows. As Jody begins to learn the harsh lessons of life and death, he starts to understand what growing up and becoming an adult really means.
The Short Novels of John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
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 Row, to The Pearl's examination of the fallacy of the American dream, Steinbeck stories of realism, that were imbued with energy and resilience.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
The Short Reign of Pippin IV
John Steinbeck
Steinbeck's only work of political satire turns the French Revolution on its head, as amateur astronomer Pippin Heristal is drafted in to rule the unruly French. Enchanting comedy ensues as Steinbeck creates the most hilarious royal court ever around the brief, bold reign of the corduroy-clad Pippin, his social-climbing wife Maria, his star-struck daughter Clotilde and her Californian beau, Todd.
The Vigilante
John Steinbeck
'Everything was dead, everything unreal; the dark mob was made up of stiff lay-figures'
One of America's greatest writers explores mob violence, voyeurism and betrayal in these unforgettable tales of Californian life.
Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
The Wayward Bus
John Steinbeck
The ambitions, dreams, failings & innermost thoughts of a diverse group of passengers are revealed as they travel aboard a bus along the backroads of California.
The Winter of Our Discontent
John Steinbeck
Ethan Allen Hawley, the protagonist of Steinbeck’s last novel, works as a clerk in a grocery store that his family once owned. With Ethan no longer a member of Long Island’s aristocratic class, his wife is restless, and his teenage children are hungry for the tantalizing material comforts he cannot provide. Then one day, in a moment of moral crisis, Ethan decides to take a holiday from his own scrupulous standards.
Set in Steinbeck’s contemporary 1960 America, the novel explores the tenuous line between private and public honesty that today ranks it alongside his most acclaimed works of penetrating insight into the American condition. This edition features an introduction and notes by Steinbeck scholar Susan Shillinglaw.
To a God Unknown
John Steinbeck
While fulfilling his dead father's dream of creating a prosperous farm in California, Joseph Wayne comes to believe that a magnificent tree on the farm embodies his father's spirit. His brothers and their families share in Joseph's prosperity and the farm flourishes - until one brother, scared by Joseph's pagan belief, kills the tree and brings disease and famine on the farm. Set in familiar Steinbeck country, To a God Unknown is a mystical tale, exploring one man's attempt to control the forces of nature and to understand the ways of God.
To a God Unkown
John Steinbeck
While fulfilling his dead father's dream of creating a prosperous farm in California, Joseph Wayne comes to believe that a magnificent tree on the farm embodies his father's spirit. His brothers and their families share in Joseph's prosperity and the farm flourishes - until one brother, scared by Joseph's pagan belief, kills the tree and brings disease and famine on the farm. Set in familiar Steinbeck country, To a God Unknown is a mystical tale, exploring one man's attempt to control the forces of nature and to understand the ways of God.
Tortilla Flat
John Steinbeck
Danny is a paisano, descended from the original Spanish settlers who arrived in Monterey, California, centuries before. He values friendship above money and possessions, so when he suddenly inherits two houses, Danny is quick to offer shelter to his fellow gentlemen of the road. Together, their love of freedom and scorn for material things draws them into daring and often hilarious adventures. That is, until Danny, tiring of his new responsibilities, suddenly disappears...
Travels with Charley
John Steinbeck
In 1960, when he was almost sixty years old, John Steinbeck set out to rediscover his native land. He felt that he might have lost touch with its sights, sounds and the essence of its people. Accompanied only by his dog, Charley, he travelled all across the United States in a pick-up truck. His journey took him through almost forty states, and he saw things that made him proud, angry, sympathetic and elated. All that he saw and experienced is described with remarkable honesty and insight.
Travels with Charley: In Search of America
John Steinbeck
A quest across America, from the northernmost tip of Maine to California’s Monterey Peninsula
To 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 writing about for so many years.
With Charley, his French poodle, Steinbeck drives the interstates and the country roads, dines with truckers, encounters bears at Yellowstone and old friends in San Francisco. Along the way he reflects on the American character, racial hostility, the particular form of American loneliness he finds almost everywhere, and the unexpected kindness of strangers.
Uomini e topi
John Steinbeck
Pubblicato nel 1937 negli Stati Uniti, apparso un anno dopo in Italia nella celebre traduzione di Cesare Pavese, Uomini e topi è un piccolo intenso dramma che colloca l'amara vicenda dei suoi protagonisti su uno sfondo di denuncia sociale. Il romanzo affronta in chiave simbolica il problema dell'emigrazione contadina all'Ovest, terra di mancate promesse negli anni successivi alla Depressione: è la storia tragica e violenta di due braccianti che trovano lavoro in un ranch della California, il grande Lennie, gigante buono e irresponsabile, e il saggio George, guida e sostegno dell'amico nella vana resistenza alla difesa del mondo. Sfruttamento e lotte sociali, ingiustizia e sofferenza umana, tutti temi che verranno trattati con realismo aspro e risentito in Furore, sono qui espressi con una vena di lirica commozione e con quel vigore narrativo che fa di Steinbeck uno dei grandi autori americani.
Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck wrote The Grapes of Wrath during an astonishing burst of activity between June and October of 1938. Throughout the time he was creating his greatest work, Steinbeck faithfully kept a journal revealing his arduous journey toward its completion.The journal, like the novel it chronicles, tells a tale of dramatic proportions—of dogged determination and inspiration, yet also of paranoia, self-doubt, and obstacles. It records in intimate detail the conception and genesis of The Grapes of Wrath and its huge though controversial success. It is a unique and penetrating portrait of an emblematic American writer creating an essential American masterpiece.
Консервный ряд (Cannery Row, #1)
John Steinbeck
Джон Стейнбек - лауреат Нобелевской премии, автор знаменитых романов "О мышах и людях", "Гроздья гнева", "Зима тревоги нашей"... Действие повести "Консервный ряд" (1944) происходит в городке Монтерей, там же, где происходило действие повести "Квартал Тортилья-Флэт" (1935). Герои этой смешной и грустной истории - душа веселой компании Мак, его друзья, бакалейщик Ли Чонг, содержательница "веселого заведения" Дора и ее девочки - все они, по мнению автора, - великомученики и ангелы, что не мешает им оставаться теми, кто они есть на самом деле: жуликами, своднями и шлюхами. Есть здесь и еще один персонаж - ученый-биолог Док, человек, готовый выслушать любую чепуху и превратить ее во всяческую премудрость...
عناقيد الغضب
John Steinbeck
رغم ما أحدثته ملحمة چون شتاينبك "عناقيد الغضب" من صدمة وما أثارته من جدل عندما نُشرت لأول مرة في عام 1939، فهي تظلُ رائعتَه التي لا خلافَ عليها. وبينما تقع أحداثها في أوكلاهوما التي أصابها الجدب والجفاف وتتناول حياة المهاجرين في كاليفورنيا، فتحكي عن أسرة چَدْ التي تُجبر مثل آلاف غيرها من الأسر على السفر غربًا سعيًا وراء الأرض الموعودة. وقصة هذه الأسرة واحدة من قصص الآمال الزائفة والرغبات المحبطة والأحلام المحطمة. ومع ذلك فقد خلق چون شتاينبك الحائز على جائزة نوبل في الأدب من معاناتها دراما على قدر مكثف من الإنسانية، بيد أنها مهيبة في حجمها ورؤيتها الأخلاقية. إنها إشادة بليغة بجَلَد الروح الإنسانية وكرامتها
查理與我：諾貝爾文學獎得主史坦貝克的探尋美國之旅: Travels with Charley in Search of America (Traditional Chinese Edition)
John Steinbeck
一個老男人，一條老狗，一輛皮卡車一趟橫越美國的千里長征★ 1962年諾貝爾文學獎得主★ 旅行文學的不朽經典，帶你認識美國人眼中的美國，究竟是什麼樣子！史坦貝克，道地的美國人，一生書寫 美國的諾貝爾文學獎得主；他的愛狗查理，生性膽小，最會虛張聲勢，是交朋友、嚇唬壞人的高手。他們都老了，偏偏旅行魂還依舊猖狂。這次，他們要跳上皮卡車，展開一趟歷時將近3個月、橫越美國38個州的壯遊，最後一次好好看一看、聽一聽這個國家，以及生活在這片土地上的人們！旅程就像婚姻，有件事一定是錯的，那就是，以為你能掌控一切- 迷路、迷路、再迷路；- 想溜進加拿大抄近路，搞到卡在海關差點回不來；- 文弱的查理遇到熊，居然發瘋變成殺熊狂；- 誤闖詭異空無一人的汽車旅館、星期天在荒郊野外爆胎、查理生病還倒楣遇上庸醫……美國太大，什麼種人都有，什麼景色都不奇怪- 愛故意給你指錯路的緬因州人，生活過得「樸實無華」的德州富豪，- 說搬就搬的移動式房屋族群，吸乾所有正能量的厭世服務生- 高速公路犀利如刀劃開大地，大城市汙水橫流，垃圾堆積如山。- 乾燥而尖銳、孤絕而危險的惡地，一到傍晚變得光彩炫目，夜裡美&#
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