Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
978-0-316-25081-8. California is a novel by American author Edan Lepucki described as "post-apocalyptic dystopian fiction", [1] in which characters Frida and Cal flee Los Angeles to live in the wilderness of post-apocalyptic California. The novel rose to prominence after Stephen Colbert urged his viewers to pre-order copies of the book from ...
Of Mice and Men. Of Mice and Men is a 1937 novella written by American author John Steinbeck. [ 1][ 2] It narrates the experiences of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers, who move from place to place in California in search of new job opportunities during the Great Depression in the United States .
Cannery Row is a novel by American author John Steinbeck, published in 1945. [ 1] It is set during the Great Depression in Monterey, California, on a street lined with sardine canneries that is known as Cannery Row. The story revolves around the people living there: Lee Chong, the local grocer; Doc, a marine biologist; and Mack, the leader of a ...
t. e. This is a bibliography of California history. It contains English language (including translations) books and mainstream academic journal articles published after World War II. Inclusion criteria. This list is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all works about California history. It is limited to works primarily or substantially ...
The 1562 map of the Americas, created by Spanish cartographer Diego Gutiérrez, which applied the name California for the first time.. California was the name given to a mythical island populated only by beautiful Amazon warriors, as depicted in Greek myths, using gold tools and weapons in the popular early 16th-century romance novel Las Sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián) by ...
OCLC. 244815. Followed by. The Pit. The Octopus: A Story of California is a 1901 novel by Frank Norris and was the first part of an uncompleted trilogy, The Epic of the Wheat. It describes the wheat industry in California, and the conflicts between wheat growers and a railway company. Norris was inspired to write the novel by the Mussel Slough ...
Kevin Owen Starr (September 3, 1940 – January 14, 2017) was an American historian and California's state librarian, best known for his multi-volume series on the history of California, collectively called "Americans and the California Dream." After an impoverished childhood, he received degrees from various universities where he studied ...
Nationality. Californian. Calafia, or Califia, is the fictional queen of the island of California, first introduced by 16th century poet Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo in his epic novel of chivalry, Las sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián), written around 1510. [ 1] She is the namesake of the California region encompassing the U ...