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13580264. Travels with Charley: In Search of America is a 1962 travelogue written by American author John Steinbeck. It depicts a 1960 road trip around the United States made by Steinbeck, in the company of his standard poodle Charley. Steinbeck wrote that he was moved by a desire to see his country because he made his living writing about it.
0-670-68686-7. Preceded by. Cannery Row. Sweet Thursday is a 1954 novel by John Steinbeck. It is a sequel to Cannery Row and set in the years after the end of World War II. According to Steinbeck in the narrative, "Sweet Thursday" is the day between Lousy Wednesday and Waiting Friday. The book is not held in as high esteem as is Cannery Row ...
PS3537.T3234. East of Eden is a novel by American author and Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck, published in September 1952. Many regard the work as Steinbeck's most ambitious novel, and Steinbeck himself considered it his magnum opus. [2] Steinbeck said of East of Eden: "It has everything in it I have been able to learn about my craft or ...
Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902, in Salinas, California. [8] He was of German, English, and Irish descent. [9] Johann Adolf Großsteinbeck (1828–1913), Steinbeck's paternal grandfather, was a founder of Mount Hope, a short-lived messianic farming colony in Palestine that disbanded after Arab attackers killed his brother and raped his brother's wife and mother-in-law.
289946. Dewey Decimal. 813.52. The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. [2] The book won the National Book Award [3] and Pulitzer Prize [4] for fiction, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962.
Tortilla Flat (1935) is an early John Steinbeck novel set in Monterey, California.The novel was the author's first clear critical and commercial success. The book portrays a group of 'paisanos'—literally, countrymen—a small band of errant friends enjoying life and wine in the days after the end of World War I.
To a God Unknown is a novel by John Steinbeck, first published in 1933.The book was Steinbeck's second novel (after Cup of Gold).Steinbeck found To a God Unknown extremely difficult to write; taking him roughly five years to complete, [citation needed] the novel proved more time-consuming than either East of Eden or The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck's longest novels.
352. The Wayward Bus is a novel by American author John Steinbeck, published in 1947. The novel's epigraph is a passage from the 15th-century English play Everyman, with its archaic English intact; the quotation refers to the transitory nature of humanity. Although considered one of Steinbeck's weaker novels at the time of its original ...