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The Wayward Bus. 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 ...
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 ...
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 farming colony in Palestine that disbanded after Arab attackers killed his brother and raped his brother's wife and mother-in-law. [10]
Of Mice and Men is a 1937 novella written by American author John Steinbeck. [1][2] It describes the experiences of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers, as they move from place to place in California, searching for jobs during the Great Depression. Steinbeck based the novella on his own experiences as a teenager ...
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]
The Harvest Gypsies, by John Steinbeck, is a series of feature-story articles written on commission for The San Francisco News about the lives and times of migrant workers in California's Central Valley. [1] Published daily from October 5 to 12, 1936, Steinbeck explores and explains the hardships and triumphs of American migrant workers during ...
The Pearl is a novella by the American author John Steinbeck. The story, first published in 1947, [citation needed] follows a pearl diver, Kino, and explores man’s purpose as well as greed, defiance of societal norms, and evil. Steinbeck's inspiration was a Mexican folk tale from La Paz, Baja California Sur, which he had heard in a visit to ...
311 pp. The Winter of Our Discontent is John Steinbeck's last novel, published in 1961. The title comes from the first two lines of William Shakespeare 's Richard III: "Now is the winter of our discontent / Made glorious summer by this sun [or son] of York". It is Steinbeck's only work to take place entirely on the East Coast of the United ...