Books by John Steinbeck

A solitary work of fantasy literature by the Nobel Prize-winning writer is a modernization of Malory's adventures of the legendary king and his Round Table companions, in an edition complemented by a new foreword that reflects the perspective of a new generation of readers. 20,000 first printing.

A solitary work of fantasy literature by the Nobel Prize-winning writer is a modernization of Malory's adventures of the legendary king and his Round Table companions, in an edition complemented by a new foreword that reflects the perspective of a new generation of readers. Reprint.

Steinbeck attempts to recreate for the modern reader a rhythm and tone that matches Malory's in these six tales from Morte d'Arthur.

Drawing characters based on his memories of real inhabitants of Monterey, Steinbeck interweaves the stories of Doc, Henri, Mack, and his boys, in a world where only the fittest survive, in a novel that focuses on the acceptance of life as it is--a story at once humorous and poignant.

Gathers interviews with Steinbeck from each period in his career and offers a brief profile on his life and accomplishments.

The American writer's only historical novel centers on the seventeenth-century British buccaneer's Caribbean exploits, his desire for the mysterious Santa Roja, and his driving ambition to conquer and rule Panama and its gold.

This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, 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. "A strange and original work of art".--New York Times Book Review.

Ten-year-old Jody carefully grooms and trains the red pony colt his father has given him, only to face the possibility of losing him to sickness.

John Steinbeck lived and worked with a group of migrant workers in California, from whom he drew the material for his great Dust Bowl saga of a wandering Okie family, the Joads. This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel awakened the American reading public to the plight of migrant workers and made Steinbeck famous worldwide. One of the most popular novels of the Great Depression, it has come to be regarded as a classic work of social realism and was made into an acclaimed movie.

This 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, unleashing a political storm with its vision of America's dispossessed struggling for survival. It continues to exert a powerful influence on American culture, and has inspired artists as diverse as John Ford, Woody Guthrie, and Bruce Springsteen. Tracing the journey of the Joad family from the dust bowl of Oklahoma to the migrant camps of California, Steinbeck creates an American epic, spacious, impassioned, and pulsating with the rhythms of living speech. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize and has since sold millions of copies worldwide. The text of The Grapes of Wrath has been newly edited based on Steinbeck's manuscript, typescript, and proofs. Many errors have been corrected and words omitted or misconstrued by his typist have been restored. In addition, The Harvest Gypsies, his 1936 investigative report on migrant workers which laid the groundwork for the novel, is included as an appendix. The Long Valley (1938) displays Steinbeck's brilliance as a writer of short stories, including such classics as "The Chrysanthemums", "The White Quail", "Flight", and "The Red Pony". Set in the Salinas Valley landscape which was Steinbeck's enduring inspiration, the stories explore moments of fear, tenderness, isolation, and violence with poetic intensity. The Log from the Sea of Cortez, an account of the 1940 marine biological expedition in which Steinbeck participated with his close friend Ed Ricketts, is a unique blend of science,philosophy, and adventure, as well as one of Steinbeck's most revealing expositions of his core beliefs. First published in 1941 as part of the collaborative volume Sea of Cortez, Steinbeck's narrative was reissued separately a decade later, augmented by the moving tribute "About Ed Ricketts".

Steinbeck's powerful work of social criticism, published in 1936, involves a group of apple-picking migrant workers in California.

John Steinbeck IV reveals his views on America in 1966, when he was 21, as he writes of Vietnam, marijuana, meditation, and Washington.

This series of letters, in which Steinbeck explicates the process of writing EAST OF EDEN, provides a rare close-up of the writer's methods and attitudes.

The Spanish-language version of John Steinbeck's great short novel, THE PEARL.

Offers commentary profiling major themes, settings, characters, style, and viewpoints while asking leading questions and summarizing important details.

In 1940, Steinbeck and the biologist Edward F. Ricketts ventured aboard the Western Flyer, a sardine boat out of Monterey, California, on a 4,000-mile voyage around the Baja peninsula into the Sea of Cortez. This exciting, day-by-day account of their expedition wonderfully combines science, philosophy, and high-spirited adventure, and provides a much fuller picture of Steinbeck--and his beliefs about man and the world than any of his fictional works.

These stories, set in Salinas Valley of Steinbeck's youth, were called "incomparable" by the Swedish Academy when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize. This volume includes the stories about a young boy named Jody which eventually were collected as THE RED PONY.

Originally published at the zenith of Nazi Germany's power, Steinbeck's fable is about the enemy occupation of an unnamed European country. This controversial novel, for which Steinbeck was decorated by the king of Norway, explores the effects of invasion on conquered and conquerors alike.

A definitive collection of stories from one of America's greatest writers includes The Moon Is Down, which details the transformation of ordinary life under Nazi rule in an unnamed Scandinavian country under German occupation, as well as Cannery Row, The Pearl, and East of Eden.

Tragic tale of a retarded man and the friend who loves and tries to protect him. With illustrations from the movie starring John Malkovich and Gary Sinise.

Two of Steinbeck's best-known short novels depict an assortment of characters who inhabit the outer fringes of society.

In this early (1932), experimental, and overlooked novel, Steinbeck returns to the world of his childhood in Salinas, California.

"Deep down it's mine, right to the center of the world", says a Salinas Valley farmer about his land in John Steinbeck's To a God Unknown, and Steinbeck the writer could have said the same. From the very start of his career he evoked the landscapes and people of central California with lyrical intensity and unflinching frankness. Through his intimate rendering of that place and those people, he expressed his abiding concerns: community, social justice, and the elemental connection between nature and human society. Here for the first time in one volume are Steinbeck's early California writings. In prose that blends the vernacular and the incantatory, the local and the mythic, these five works chart Steinbeck's evolution into one of the greatest and most enduringly popular of American novelists. The Pastures of Heaven (1932), a collection of interrelated stories, delineates the troubled inner lives and sometimes disastrous fates of families living in a seemingly tranquil California valley. The surface realism of Steinbeck's first mature work is enriched by hints of uncanny forces at work beneath. A sense of primeval magic dominates To a God Unknown (1933), as a California farmer reverts to pagan nature worship and begins a tortuous journey toward catastrophe and ultimate understanding. Steinbeck's sympathetic depiction of the raffish paisanos of Tortilla Flat (1935), a ramshackle district above Monterey, first won him popular attention. The Flat's tenderhearted, resourceful, mildly corrupt, ever-optimistic characters are a triumph of life-affirming humor. In Dubious Battle (1936) plunges into the political struggle of the 1930s, painting a vigorous fresco of a migrant fruit-picker'sstrike. Anticipating the collective portraiture of The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck poignantly traces the surges and shifts of group behavior. With Of Mice and Men (1937), Steinbeck secured his status as one of the most influential American writers. Lenny and George, itinerant farmhands held together in the face of deprivation only by the frailest of dreams, have long since passed into American mythology. This novel, which Steinbeck called "such a simple little thing", is now recognized as a masterpiece of concentrated emotional power.

For the diver Kino, finding a magnificent pearl means the promise of a better life for his impoverished family. His dreams blind him to the greed that the pearl arouses in him and his neighbors. Baring the fallacy of the American dream--that wealth erases all problems--Steinbeck's classic illustrates our fall from innocence.

A poor fisherman dreams of wealth and happiness for his family when he finds a priceless pearl.

Steinbeck's two classics are stories of simple people caught up in their dreams and responsibilities.

His major writings, passages of his war communications and a biographical sketch reveal the skill and versatility of Steinbeck.

A collection of critical essays on Steinbeck's story discusses themes, characters, and structure, and considers film adaptations of the tale.

Tells a story of a young boy and life on his father's California ranch, raising a sorrel colt.

The novelist and biologist record their experiences and scientific findings during an expedition into the Gulf of California.

A political fantasy-satire about a fictional king who reigned during the French Revolution.

In Monterey, on the California coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday, which is one of those days that is just naturally bad. Returning to the scene of CANNERY ROW, the weedy lots and junk heaps and flophouses, Steinbeck once again brings to life the denizens of a netherworld of laughter and tears. This novel was made into the musical PIPE DREAM by Rogers and Hammerstein.

This early (1933) Steinbeck novel, like PASTURES OF HEAVEN published the previous year, was experimental in its examination of the world of Steinbeck's youth in Salinas, California.

Like the knights of the Round Table, the dreamers who gather at Danny's house share joy and fellowship, triumphs and sorrows.

Steinbeck records his emotions and experiences during a journey of rediscovery in his native land.

In September 1960, John Steinbeck and his poodle, Charley, embarked on a journey across America. A picaresque tale, this chronicle of their trip meanders along scenic backroads and speeds along anonymous superhighways, moving from small towns to growing cities to glorious wilderness oases. TRAVELS WITH CHARLEY is animated by Steinbeck's attention to the specific details of the natural world and his sense of how the lives of people are intimately connected to the rhythms of nature--to weather, geography, the cycles of the seasons. His keen ear for the transactions among people is evident, too, as he records the interests and obsessions that preoccupy the Americans he encounters along the way.

The ambitions, dreams, failings, and innermost thoughts of a diverse group of passengers are revealed as they travel aboard a bus along the backroads of California.

A New Englander learns the bitter lesson that it is not possible to be a little dishonest.

The journal John Steinback kept between June and October of 1938 when he wrote The Grapes of Wrath. It is a tale of determination and inspiration; it also chronicles his self-doubt and personal difficulties. With a fascinating cast of characters, Working Days records in intimate detail the conception and genesis of an American masterpiece.

The basis for the Oscar-nominated screenplay Viva Zapata!, this newly-discovered narrative by John Steinbeck explores the conflict between creative dissent and intolerant militancy exhibited in Emiliano Zapata, as he championed the cause of the peasants during the Mexican Revolution.

First published some sixty years ago, a Spanish-language edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel chronicles the hardships and suffering enduring by the Joads as they journey from Oklahoma to California during the Depression. (Historical Fiction)