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The Grapes Of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
stands as a pivotal piece of American literature. The story follows
the Joad family (and thousands of others) as they are driven from the
Oklahoma farm where they are sharecroppers during the Great
Depression. The drought, economic hardship, and changes in financial
and agricultural industries send them searching for dignity and
honest work in the bountiful state of California.
The novel earned Steinbeck the Pulitzer
Prize for fiction in 1940, and inspired the... Read more about this item
stands as a pivotal piece of American literature. The story follows
the Joad family (and thousands of others) as they are driven from the
Oklahoma farm where they are sharecroppers during the Great
Depression. The drought, economic hardship, and changes in financial
and agricultural industries send them searching for dignity and
honest work in the bountiful state of California.
The novel earned Steinbeck the Pulitzer
Prize for fiction in 1940, and inspired the... Read more about this item
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men is a novella written by Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck. Published in 1937, it tells the tragic story of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers during the Great Depression in California.An intimate portrait of two men who cherish the slim bond between them and the dream they share in a world marred by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy, and callousness. Clinging to each other in their loneliness and alienation, George and his simple-minded...
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East Of Eden
by John Steinbeck
East of Eden is a novel by John Steinbeck, published in 1952. It tells the multi-generational story of two families, the Hamiltons and the Trasks, in California's Salinas Valley. The novel explores themes of good and evil, love and hate, and the human capacity for both. It also delves into the nature of family dynamics, inheritance, and the American dream. The characters are complex and nuanced, and the novel's narrative structure allows for a deep exploration of their motivations and emotions. East of...
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Cannery Row
by John Steinbeck
Cannery Row is the waterfront street in the New Monterey section of Monterey, California, USA. It is the site of a number of now-defunct sardine canning factories. The street name, formerly a nickname for Ocean View Avenue, became official in January 1958 to honor John Steinbeck and his famous novel Cannery Row.
Travels With Charley
by John Steinbeck
Travels with Charley: In Search of America is a travelogue by American author John Steinbeck. It documents the road trip he took with his French standard poodle Charley around the United States, in 1960. He wrote that he was moved by a desire to see his country on a personal level, since he made his living writing about it.
The Pearl
by John Steinbeck
Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf beds that once brought great wealth to the Kings of Spain and now provide Kino, Juana, and their infant son with meager subsistence. Then, on a day like any other, Kino emerges from the sea with a pearl as large as a sea gull's egg, as "perfect as the moon." With the pearl comes hope, the promise of comfort and of security . . . A story of classic simplicity, based on a Mexican folk tale, The...
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The Moon Is Down
by John Steinbeck
In this masterful tale set in Norway during World War II, Steinbeck explores the effects of invasion on both the conquered and the conquerors. As he delves into the emotions of the German commander and the Norwegian traitor, and depicts the spirited patriotism of the Norwegian underground, Steinbeck uncovers profound, often unsettling truths about war—and about human nature. Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck’s self-described “celebration of the durability of democracy”...
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Sweet Thursday
by John Steinbeck
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 the author, "Sweet Thursday" is the day after Lousy Wednesday and the day before Waiting Friday.
The Winter Of Our Discontent
by John Steinbeck
The Winter of Our Discontent published in 1961, is John Steinbeck's last novel. The title is a reference to the line "Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son [or sun] of York," from William Shakespeare's Richard III.
Tortilla Flat
by John Steinbeck
Tortilla Flat (1935) is an early Steinbeck novel set in Monterey, California. The book portrays with great sympathy and humour a group of paisanos (fellows/countrymen), denouncing society by enjoying life and wine in the idyllic days after the end of the Great War and preceding U.S. prohibition. Tortilla Flat was made into a film in 1942. Steinbeck would later return to the some of the panhandling locals of Monterey (though not the Spanish paisanos of the Flat) in his novel Cannery Row (1945).
The Red Pony
by John Steinbeck
"The Red Pony" is an episodic novella written by American writer John Steinbeck in 1933. The first three chapters were published in magazines from 1933–1936, and the full book was published in 1937 by Viking Penguin. The stories in the book are tales of a boy named Jody Tiflin. The book has four different stories about Jody and his life on his father's California ranch.
The Log From the Sea Of Cortez
by John Steinbeck
Ed Ricketts was the inspiration for the character "Doc" in Steinbeck's novels _Cannery Row and _Sweet Thursday.
In Dubious Battle
by John Steinbeck
In Dubious Battle is a novel by John Steinbeck, written in 1936. The central figure of the story is an activist for "the Party" (the American Communist Party, although it is never specifically named in the novel) who is organizing a major strike by the workers, seeking thus to attract followers to his cause. In Steinbeck's obituary, the New York Times said that "Although the writer's sympathies were clearly with the strikers...
The Long Valley
by John Steinbeck
First published in 1938, this volume of stories collected with the encouragement of his longtime editor Pascal Covici serves as a wonderful introduction to the work of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck. Set in the beautiful Salinas Valley of California, where simple people farm the land and struggle to find a place for themselves in the world, these stories reflect Steinbeck’s characteristic interests: the tensions between town and country, laborers and owners, past and present. Included here...
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The Wayward Bus
by John Steinbeck
Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America's greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, his many works, beginning with the six shown here, will be published as black-spine Penguin Classics for the first time and will feature eye-catching, newly commissioned art.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...
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To a God Unknown
by John Steinbeck
To a God Unknown is a novel by John Steinbeck, first published in 1933. The book was Steinbeck's second novel (after his unsuccessful Cup of Gold), the title taken from a hymn excerpt of the Rig Veda's Book X. Steinbeck found To a God Unknown extremely difficult to write; taking him roughly five years to complete, the novella proved more time-consuming than either East of Eden or The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck's longest novels.
A Russian Journal
by John Steinbeck
A Russian Journal was written by John Steinbeck and illustrated by photographer Robert Capa as the two traveled through the bloc countries of the Soviet Union during the early years of the Cold War era, shortly after the Iron Curtain fell across Eastern Europe. The journey, intended for a report with the New York Herald Tribune, recorded the grim realities of factory workers, government clerks, and peasants of the region (from Moscow and Stalingrad – now Volgograd – to the countryside of the Ukraine...
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Journal Of a Novel
by John Steinbeck
Each working day from January 29 to November 1, 1951, John Steinbeck warmed up to the work of writing East of Eden with a letter to the late Pascal Covici, his friend and editor at The Viking Press. It was his way, he said, of "getting my mental arm in shape to pitch a good game." Steinbeck's letters were written on the left-hand pages of a notebook in which the facing pages would be filled with the test of East of Eden. They touched on many subjects—story arguments, trial flights of worknamship,...
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The Acts Of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
by John Steinbeck
Steinbeck seeks to update the rich legends of King Arthur in his adaptation titled The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights.
The tale begins with the birth of Arthur, heir to the throne, and son of Uther Pendragon, and follows him through the quests that made him legend.
The tale begins with the birth of Arthur, heir to the throne, and son of Uther Pendragon, and follows him through the quests that made him legend.
The Short Novels Of John Steinbeck
by John Steinbeck
Collected here for the first time in a deluxe paperback volume are six of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck’s most widely read and beloved short novels—Tortilla Flat, The Red Pony, Of Mice and Men, The Moon Is Down, Cannery Row and The Pearl. From Steinbeck’s tale of commitment, loneliness, and hope in Of Mice and Men, to his tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of Monterey society in Cannery Row, to The Pearl’s mythic examination of the fallacy of the...
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Cup Of Gold
by John Steinbeck
A STANDOUT in the Steinbeck canon, Cup of Gold is edgy and adventurous, brash and distrustful of society, and sure to add a new dimension to the common perception of this all-American writer. Steinbeck's first novel and sole work of historical fiction contains themes that resonate throughout the author's prodigious body of work. From the mid-1650s through the 1660s, Henry Morgan, a pirate and outlaw of legendary viciousness, ruled the Spanish Main. He ravaged the coasts of Cuba and America, striking...
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America and Americans
by John Steinbeck
This is a unique selection of nonfiction work by the quintessential American writer.
The Pastures Of Heaven
by John Steinbeck
The Pastures of Heaven is a novel by John Steinbeck, first published in 1932, consisting of twelve interconnected stories about a valley in Monterey, California, which was discovered by a Spanish corporal while chasing runaway Indian slaves. Enchanted by the valley's natural beauty, the corporal names it Las Pasturas del Cielo or "The Pastures of Heaven.
The Short Reign Of Pippin IV
by John Steinbeck
In his only work of political satire, The Short Reign of Pippin IV, John Steinbeck turns the French Revolution upside down as amateur astronomer Pippin Héristal is drafted to rule the unruly French. Steinbeck creates around the infamous Pippin the most hilarious royal court ever: Pippin’s wife, Queen Marie, who “might have taken her place at the bar of a very good restaurant”; his uncle, a man of dubious virtue; his glamour-struck daughter and her beau, the son of the so-called...
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John Steinbeck Books & Ephemera
Between Pacific Tides
by Calvin, Edward F Ricketts and Jack
Between Pacific Tides is a 1939 book by Ed Ricketts and Jack Calvin that explores the intertidal ecology of the Pacific coast of the United States. The book was originally titled, "Between Pacific Tides: An Account of the Habits and Habitats of Some Five Hundred of the Common, Conspicuous Seashore Invertebrates of the Pacific Coast Between Sitka, Alaska, and Northern Mexico.
The Pearl
by Steinbeck, John
Penguin Books, 2000. Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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£4.86
John Steinbeck: America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction
by John Steinbeck; Shillinglaw, Susan (editor); Benson, Jackson J. (editor)
Viking, 2002. As new, unread, in dust jacket.vThere is no writer more quintessentially American than John Steinbeck. More than thirty years after his death, he remains one of America's greatest writers and cultural figures. Yet his nonfiction-the writings in which he spoke directly about his world-has often been overlooked. Now, Steinbeck's last published book is available again, along with a collection of his finest reportage, including the newspaper articles that inspired his masterpiece, The...
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£32.42
Once There Was a War
by John Steinbeck
Penguin Publishing Group, 1977. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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£5.26
The Winter of Our Discontent
by John Steinbeck
Penguin Publishing Group, 1996. Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. An ex-library book and may have standard library stamps and/or stickers. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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£4.86
The Wayward Bus
by Steinbeck, John
Penguin Group, 1979. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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£6.47
In Dubious Battle
by John Steinbeck
Penguin Publishing Group, 1963. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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£5.62
The Moon Is Down
by John Steinbeck
Penguin Publishing Group, 1970. Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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£11.15
In Dubious Battle
by John Steinbeck
Penguin Publishing Group, 1979. Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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The Winter of Our Discontent
by Steinbeck, John
New York: The Viking Press, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Edition limited to 500 copies. 311pp. Blue cloth stamped in gold on the cover and gold and black on the spine, mustard yellow endpapers. Some creases to free endpapers else a bright, fine copy in near fine dustjacket with mild wear and toning to edges. Lacks the acetate dustjacket with the limited edition statement. Dustjacket illustration by Elmer Hader. Goldstone and Payne A38a. A nice copy. ; Octavo.
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£413.81
The Pearl
by Steinbeck, John
Bantam, 1975. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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£4.86
Of Mice and Men
by Steinbeck, John
Tinglebooks. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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£9.10
The Pearl
by Steinbeck, John
Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 1999. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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£4.86
Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck Essentials)
by Steinbeck, John
Penguin Books, Limited (UK), 2001. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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£4.86
To A God Unknown
by John Steinbeck
The World Publishing Company, 1946. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1946. Fifth Printing. 247 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gilt lettering. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout, heavier at end-papers, paste-downs and text-block edges. Minor pencil marking to front free end-paper. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends with splits and loss. Moderate tanning to spine. Gilt lettering is...
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£28.80
Burning Bright
by John Steinbeck
Penguin Publishing Group, 1994. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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£5.66
The Moon Is Down
by John Steinbeck
Pan Books Ltd., 1963. Paperback. Acceptable. 1963. 5th Printing. 141 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Water staining to some page edges, text remains unaffected. Paper cover has mild edgewear with curling to corners. Light tanning to spine and edges with splits to spine edges.
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£5.15
Novels and Stories 1932-1937. The Pastures of Heaven. To a God Unknown. Tortilla Flat. In Dubious Battle. Of Mice and Men
by Steinbeck, John
New York: The Library of America, 1994. First Printing. Hardcover. 909pp. Light brown cloth stamped in red and gold on the spine. A fine copy in fine dustjacket.; Octavo.
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£29.21
The Pastures of Heaven
by John Steinbeck
Corgi Book, Transworld Publishers, 1968. Paperback. Good. 1968. Reissued. 127 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.
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£7.70
To a God Unknown
by Steinbeck, John
NY: Covici Friede Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Beige cloth titled in green, faded green topstain. First edition, second issue. Spine ends, bottom points softened, book shop sticker to fep, faint trace foxing to board edges, backstrip slightly toned. The DJ in mylar is slightly chipped at spine head, creased mid spine and slightly toned to spine. Flap price of $2.50 remains intact. A sound square unmarked copy. Goldstone & Payne A3b. ; 8vo 8" -...
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£1,298.23
John Steinbeck
by French, Warren
Bobbs-Merrill. Paperback. 189pp. Revised edition. Twayne's United States Authors Series. Lightly rubbed. Minor marks externally. Text is clean. Binding is sound. Good+, sound copy . Paperback. 1977.
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£6.50
THE NOVELS OF JOHN STEINBECK: A First Critical Study
by Moore, Harry Thornton
Chicago: Normandie House, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition, limited to 1,000 copies. Published just weeks after The Grapes of Wrath, this is the first critical examination of the life and work of John Steinbeck (1902-1968), encompassing all of his works up to and including The Grapes of Wrath. Includes a bibliographical checklist of first editions and a map of Steinbeck Country. Original green cloth binding, with gilt lettering. Some general minor wear to the dust...
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£32.46
Burning Bright
by Steinbeck, John
New York: Viking, 1950. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Printing. Dustjacket spine is lightly faded. Review Copy with fine review slip laid in. Scarce review copy. Book is protected in a custom cut clear mylar cover. All books are carefully wrapped and shipped in a box..
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£283.99
Sweet Thursday
by John Steinbeck
Heinemann, 1954. Hardcover. Good. 1954. First Edition. 264 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with faded lettering. Clean pages. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing, staining and marking to boards. Notable sunning to spine.
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£11.45
