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21. The Winter of Our Discontent (Penguin Classics) by John Steinbeck | |
Paperback: 304
Pages
(2008-08-26)
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A Must Read
from Milan, Italy
The Summer of Our Moral Holiday
Book fell apart on first reading
best of the post eden novels |
22. The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by John Steinbeck | |
Paperback: 416
Pages
(2008-12-30)
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Incomplete but intriguing
solid modernization of Arthur tales but not up to Malory
incompletely read ---- but --- egad! what a booke!
King Arthur for Adults
Age Of Chivalry, Rebooted |
23. The Log from the Sea of Cortez (Penguin Classics) by John Steinbeck | |
Paperback: 320
Pages
(1995-11-01)
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Book Review
Best travel book I've ever read
The Log is More Than Half The Story
An unusual journey
Steinbeck's Template |
24. In Dubious Battle (Penguin Classics) by John Steinbeck | |
Paperback: 304
Pages
(2006-05-30)
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"Anybody That Wants a Living Wage is a Radical"
Steinbeck never disappoints
Little known work
For the Party
A Story of Struggle |
25. East of Eden by John Steinbeck | |
Hardcover: 602
Pages
(1952)
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26. John Steinbeck: Travels with Charley and Later Novels 1947-1962: The Wayward Bus / Burning Bright / Sweet Thursday / The Winter of Our Discontent (Library of America) by John Steinbeck | |
Hardcover: 1125
Pages
(2007-02-15)
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Editorial Review Product Description In The Wayward Bus (1947), Steinbeck leads a group of ill-matched passengers representing a spectrum of social types and classes, stranded by a washed-out bridge, on a circuitous journey that exposes cruelties, self-deceptions, and unsuspected moral strengths. The tone ranges from boisterous comedy to trenchant satirical observation of postwar America. Burning Bright (1950), an allegory set against shifting backgrounds (circus, sea, farm) and revolving around the fear of sterility and the desire for self-perpetuation, marks Steinbeck's involvement with the drama in its fusion of the forms of novel and play. Sweet Thursday (1954) marks Steinbeck's return, in a mood of sometimes frothy comedy, to the characters and milieu of his earlier Cannery Row. A love story set against the background of the local brothel, the Bear Flag, Sweet Thursday is for all its intimations of melancholy one of the most lighthearted of Steinbeck's books. It was subsequently adapted by Rodgers and Hammerstein into their musical Pipe Dream. Steinbeck's final novel, The Winter of Our Discontent (1961) is set in an old Long Island whaling town modeled on Sag Harbor, where he had been spending time since 1953. The book breaks new ground in its depiction of the crass commercialism of contemporary America, and its impact on a protagonist with traditionalist values who is appalled but finally tempted by the encroaching sleaziness. Travels with Charley in Search of America (1962) was Steinbeck's last published book. A record of his experiences and observations as he drove around America in a pickup truck, accompanied by his standard poodle Charley, it is filled with engaging, often humorous description and comes to a powerful climax in an encounter with racist demonstrators in New Orleans. Robert DeMott, co-editor, is the Edwin and Ruth Kennedy Distinguished Professor at Ohio University and the author of Steinbeck's Typewriter, an award-winning book of critical essays. Brian Railsback, co-editor, is dean of the Honors College at Western Carolina University and the author of Parallel Expeditions: Charles Darwin and the Art of John Steinbeck. Customer Reviews (5)
Still more to come
Steinbeck Novels
Steinbeck is Better than Alcohol!!!
Not enough
Fititng Conclusion to Series |
27. Critical Companion To John Steinbeck: A Literary Reference To His Life And Work by Jeffrey Schultz, Luchen Li | |
Paperback: 406
Pages
(2005-09-30)
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In depth coverage
A comprehensive biography which includes critical commentary on his novels, short stories, nonfiction and other works |
28. John Steinbeck : Novels and Stories, 1932-1937 : The Pastures of Heaven / To a God Unknown / Tortilla Flat / In Dubious Battle / Of Mice and Men (Library of America) by John Steinbeck | |
Hardcover: 909
Pages
(1994-09-01)
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Junius Maltby
Steinbeck = Good
Great book
Great works
Steinbeck's classics delivered in a wonderful manner |
29. Burning Bright: A Play in Story Form (Penguin Classics) by John Steinbeck | |
Paperback: 128
Pages
(2006-11-28)
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an interesting experiment
a superb classic from the master
Into the Darkness
Steinbeck's most cliché work
Trapped in a Paradox |
30. John Steinbeck - American Writers 94: University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers by James Gray | |
Hardcover: 48
Pages
(1971-02-18)
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Editorial Review Product Description John Steinbeck - American Writers 94 was first published in 1971. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. |
31. The Wayward Bus (Penguin Classics) by John Steinbeck | |
Paperback: 288
Pages
(2006-03-28)
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Editorial Review Product Description Of this initial group of six titles, The Wayward Bus is in a new edition. An imaginative and unsentimental chronicle of a bus traveling California’s back roads. This allegorical novel of pilgrimage includes a new introduction by Gary Scharnhorst. Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readers—and to the many who revisit them again and again. Customer Reviews (34)
Mixed
Hitch a ride on a bus called "Sweetheart" as you take a Steinbeck ride in "The Wayward Bus"
4.5/5 Star - A favorite by Steinbeck
Excellent Character Study by a True Master
Less popular than Cannery Row for good reason |
32. East Of Eden - John Steinbeck Centennial Edition (1902-2002) by John; With an Introduction by Wyatt, David Steinbeck | |
Paperback:
Pages
(2002)
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Beautiful and Competlling
East Of Eden
Great American Literature |
33. Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, with Occasional Reference to History (Penguin Classics) by John Steinbeck | |
Paperback: 240
Pages
(2008-08-26)
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Barely Steinbeck
Wonderful Steinbeck
respectable but clearly a first novel
Life lessons woven into story
Steinbeck's first novel |
34. John Steinbeck: A Biography by Jay Parini | |
Paperback: 535
Pages
(1996-03)
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Great author - poor biography
John Steinbeck: An insightful biography of the Nobel Prize Winning Californian
The Hero Fades
A PERCEPTIVE APPRAISAL OF A LITERARY LEGEND
A Master Writer's Hundredth Birthday Steinbeck is examined by Parini as an author always in touch with his roots. He was a classic example of the adage that a person should write about what one knows best. Doing so often got Steinbeck in trouble, as when residents of Monterey reportedly walked across the street rather than speak to him after he wrote "Cannery Row." Steinbeck later set off a tempest in his hometown of Salinas with the publication of "East of Eden." Citizens who had lived in Salinas for years recognized themselves as characters in the book. Steinbeck remembered the uproar years later when, not long before his death in 1968, he learned that the Salinas library would be named after him. "I wouldn't have been surprised if they had named the local house of ill repute after me," the author quipped, "but I never expected to have the library named after me." The young Steinbeck tended to be shy and withdrawn. A neighbor became a close friend and helped draw him out, Max Wagner, who later became a film actor and remained friends with Steinbeck during the rest of their lives. Max's brother Jack became a writer and collaborated with Steinbeck later on film projects. The two writers shared a Best Original Screenplay Academy Award nomination for their work in the 1945 film "A Medal for Benny." Steinbeck and Max Wagner each left Salinas to attend Stanford University in nearby Palo Alto. They both left after one year, restless creative spirits who hated confinement. Parini reveals the painful experience of writing for Steinbeck, who endured numerous ailments from the early days of his career. The biographer reveals the "earthy" propensity of Steinbeck's subject matter, including such an early work as "Tortilla Flat," which revealed the lives of impoverished Mexicans living in shacks in Monterey. Later his close friendship with local Monterey marine biologist, Dr. Edward F. Ricketts, was revealed. The man known as "Doc" to localies was played by Nick Nolte in the screen adaptation of the Steinbeck novel "Cannery Row." In the case of Steinbeck's master work, "The Grapes of Wrath," the author carefully researched California migrant camps, a major element of the story as Oklahomans fleeing the great dust bowl resided in them on the way to establishing their own roots moving westward. Steinbeck had an excellent guide, Tom Collins, who managed the Kern County Migrant Camp and became a friend of the author's. Steinbeck's great novel was dedicated partially to Collins as he wrote: "To Tom -- who lived it." It was a simple dedication which meant so much, so typically earthy, and so typically Steinbeck. One important friendship Steinbeck formed was with fellow humanitarian and author, Carl Sandburg, poet and Lincoln biographer. Actor Burgess Meredith also became a close friend after starring in the brilliant 1939 film adaptation of Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men." Long before Cesar Chavez was available to courageously carry the banner of the exploited Mexican braceros, Steinbeck fought tirelessly for their cause along with crusading journalist Carey McWilliams. Steinbeck was a stalwart advocate of the New Deal of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and became a friend and devoted admirer of two time Democratic presidential nominee Adlai E. Stevenson, for whom Steinbeck wrote speeches during his losing 1956 campaign to President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Parini provides a solid account of Steinbeck as a man, including defeats as well as triumphs. In the former category there were Steinbeck's problematical marriages and difficulties with fatherhood. The biographer notes the success of Steinbeck's last marriage to Elaine Scott Steinbeck, the former wife of actor Zachary Scott. The two became initially fond of each other after the actress Ann Sothern, who had her own romantic designs on the famous author, brought her friend Elaine along for a Northern California visit. The women stayed at a Carmel hotel and Steinbeck, then living in Monterey, showed them the sights. It soon became obvious that the author's designs were on Elaine rather than the actress. "I don't think Ann ever forgave me," Elaine Scott Steinbeck later revealed. Parini does a superb job of capturing a man of many parts, an author in touch with America's roots.Steinbeck's works are an evocation of the adventurousness and tenacity of the American spirit. ... Read more |
35. Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters by John Steinbeck | |
Paperback: 192
Pages
(1990-12-01)
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Warning...Warning...Warning!!!!
John Steinbeck . . . wise as ol' Solomon . . .
Peering inside Steinbeck
Unique Insight into Workings of a Writer's Mind
Interesting, but not revealing I was hoping that the journal, addressed to his good friend and editor Pascal Covici, would reveal much about Steinbeck the writer and the man. However, there is very little of the former except repeated brief accounts of the self-doubt and ups and downs a writer endures while creating a long and complex piece of literature. There are only hints of the technical or mental processes involved his writing. And the same applies to autobiographical information about this period of his life. There is a lot of the trivia of daily life without the real depth of observation and feeling that is shown in other books of his letters. He was a master at letter writing, and to find and know the real John Steinbeck, I strongly suggest "Steinbeck: A Life in Letters" edited by Elaine Steinbeck and Robert Wallsten. ... Read more |
36. The Pastures of Heaven (Twentieth-Century Classics) by John Steinbeck | |
Paperback: 240
Pages
(1995-04-01)
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Journeyman Fiction
A Gem of a Book
Beautiful prose and local color, but little lasting impression
stories are interesting and show glimpses of genius
More than short stories, less than a novel |
37. John Steinbeck and Edward F. Ricketts: The Shaping of a Novelist by Richard Astro | |
Paperback: 277
Pages
(2002-09-09)
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Editorial Review Product Description Ricketts went to California from Chicago in 1923, and from that time until his death in 1948 he operated a biological supply house at Pacific Grove.Steinbeck and Ricketts met in 1930 and struck an immediate friendship.Together they planned a handbook on the marine invertebrates of the San Francisco Bay region.Although this project was never carried out, it paved the way for another venture, a collecting expedition to the Gulf of California which resulted in their collaboration on Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research, the published record of that trip.As Professor Astro points out, Ricketts served, in varying degrees, as the source of characters in six of Steinbeck’s novels and novelettes and one short story.Perhaps more importantly, the author shows that many of Steinbeck’s central thematic tenets were provided by Ricketts’ passion for holistic and ecological thinking, his associational beliefs about the behavior of men and animals in groups, and his disdain for the acquisition of material wealth.But, he warns, "to say that all of Steinbeck’s concern with science in general and with marine biology in particular came directly from Ricketts is to distort the facts." By analyzing the range and depth of Ricketts’ impact on Steinbeck’s fiction, this book places a major writer in fresh perspective. Richard Astro is an associate professor of English at Oregon State University. Customer Reviews (2)
Wonderful insight to a remarkable friendship. There are two "bibles" for people who want to know about John Steinbeck - Jackson Benson's biography and this one. Personally, I prefer this one because it covers the golden age of Steinbeck and his friendship with marine biologist, philosopher and brilliant mind, Ed Ricketts. If you've read Cannery Row and Grapes of Wrath (among others), you've gotten a glimpse of Ed RIcketts.In Richard Astro's book, you get the "toto-picture" of the man.Steinbeck's literature has been called simple.Yeah, simple as a Zen painting.Richard Astro shows how the collective (and at times drastically different) philosophies of these two men spawned one to create some of the greatest stories ever told.Stories that can be read and appreciated by a kid in middle school and then upon rereading, it is discovered how many layers lie beneath the tightly plotted tales.Astro's book digs deep too and is a valuable, readible and thought provoking journey into a remarkable friendship.
Informative! |
38. The Grapes of Wrath / The Moon Is Down / Cannery Row / East of Eden / Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck | |
Hardcover: 950
Pages
(1989-08)
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Book came better than expected!
This book is amazing.
A Good Steinbeck Collection |
39. The log from the Sea of Cortez: The narrative portion of the book Sea of Cortez with a profile "About Ed Ricketts" by John Steinbeck | |
Hardcover: 282
Pages
(1951)
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40. John Steinbeck's of Mice and Men (Max Notes) by Joseph E. Scalia, Lena Shamblin | |
Paperback: 91
Pages
(1995-06-12)
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Rather misleading title...
A read from West Virginia A read from West Virginia I read this book for a group assignment in English class.I'm not big on reading books that don't look interesting to me. However, when I read this book, it made me think of friendships and how we may treat one another.It made me think that if you have a friend that's not as intelligent as you or just different doesn't mean you have to put them down or treat them bad, even if you are the best of friends like Lenny and George.In a way, the ending is just heart breaking but all George is really doing is saving his best friend from the harsh life he would have had to live.After reading this book, I discovered that John Steinbeck is a wonderful author and in the future I intend on reading Of Mice and Men again.
Fall in love with the Characters
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Of mice and men |
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