John Steinbeck

Recounts the adventures and misadventures of cannery workers living in the run-down waterfront section of Monterey, California.

In September 1960, at age fifty-eight, the author and his poodle, Charley, and riding in a three-quarter ton pickup truck named Rocinante, embarked on a journey across America. This chronicle of their trip through almost 40 states, meanders from small towns to growing cities to glorious wilderness oases. Providing an intimate look at one of America's most beloved writers in the later years of his life, this is a self-portrait of a man who never wrote...

In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel 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.

First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human...

Steinbeck here joins the Library of America's elite class of writers. This first collection in a planned series of Steinbeck titles includes The Paradise of Heaven, To a God Unknown, Tortilla Flat, In Dubious Battle, and Of Mice and Men. The volume also includes textual notes by scholar Robert DeMott and a chronology of the author's life.

Steinbeck recounts the experience of taking his car and his dog Charley to travel through the United States, to rediscover the country and its people. "Steinbeck narra la experiencia de tomar su coche y su perro Charley viajar a través de los Estados Unidos, para volver a descubrir el país y su gente" -- Google translate.

Tells the story of a poor Mexican fisherman whose dreams of wealth are both realized and shattered.