John Steinbeck - Free Library Land Online

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The compelling story of two outsiders striving to find their place in an unforgiving world. Drifters in search of work, George and his simple-minded friend Lennie have nothing in the world except each other and a dream--a dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventually they find work on a ranch in California’s Salinas Valley, but their hopes are doomed as Lennie, struggling against extreme cruelty, misunderstanding and feelings of jealousy, becomes a victim of his own strength. Tackling universal themes such as the friendship of a shared vision, and giving voice to America’s lonely and dispossessed, *Of Mice and Men* has proved one of Steinbeck’s most popular works, achieving success as a novel, a Broadway play and three acclaimed films.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 The Grapes of Wrath https://war.library.land/john-steinbeck/31553-the_grapes_of_wrath.html https://war.library.land/john-steinbeck/31553-the_grapes_of_wrath.html

**The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers. **Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s *The Great American Read***** 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 yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman’s stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. At once a naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel, and transcendental gospel, Steinbeck’s powerful landmark novel is perhaps the most American of American Classics. This Penguin Classics edition contains an introduction and notes by Steinbeck scholar Robert Demott. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. **]]> Wed, 23 Aug 2006 14:12:54 +0300 Travels With Charley in Search of America https://war.library.land/john-steinbeck/31543-travels_with_charley_in_search_of_america.html https://war.library.land/john-steinbeck/31543-travels_with_charley_in_search_of_america.html

Travels With Charley in Search of America

**An intimate journey across and in search of America, as told by one of its most beloved writers, in a deluxe centennial edition** In September 1960, John Steinbeck embarked on a journey across America. He felt that he might have lost touch with the country, with its speech, the smell of its grass and trees, its color and quality of light, the pulse of its people. To reassure himself, he set out on a voyage of rediscovery of the American identity, accompanied by a distinguished French poodle named Charley; and riding in a three-quarter-ton pickup truck named Rocinante. His course took him through almost forty states: northward from Long Island to Maine; through the Midwest to Chicago; onward by way of Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana (with which he fell in love), and Idaho to Seattle, south to San Francisco and his birthplace, Salinas; eastward through the Mojave, New Mexico, Arizona, to the vast hospitality of Texas, to New Orleans and a shocking drama of desegregation; finally, on the last leg, through Alabama, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey to New York. *Travels with Charley in Search of America* is an intimate look at one of America's most beloved writers in the later years of his life—a self-portrait of a man who never wrote an explicit autobiography. Written during a time of upheaval and racial tension in the South—which Steinbeck witnessed firsthand—*Travels with Charley* is a stunning evocation of America on the eve of a tumultuous decade. This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition also features French flaps and deckle-edged paper. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. *From the Trade Paperback edition.* ** ### Review “Pure delight, a pungent potpourri of places and people interspersed with bittersweet essays on everything from the emotional difficulties of growing old to the reasons why giant sequoias arouse such awe.” **—The New York Times Book Review** “Profound, sympathetic, often angry . . . an honest moving book by one of our great writers.” **—The San Francisco Examiner** “This is superior Steinbeck—a muscular, evocative report of a journey of rediscovery.” **—John Barkham, Saturday Review Syndicate** “The eager, sensuous pages in which he writes about what he found and whom he encountered frame a picture of our human nature in the twentieth century which will not soon be surpassed.” **—Edward Weeks, The Atlantic Monthly ** ### From the Back Cover In September 1960, John Steinbeck and his poodle, Charley, embarked on a journey across America. A picaresque tale, this chronicle of their trip meanders along scenic backroads and speeds along anonymous superhighways, moving from small towns to growing cities to glorious wilderness oases. Travels with Charley is animated by Steinbeck's attention to the specific details of the natural world and his sense of how the lives of people are intimately connected to the rhythms of nature - to weather, geography, the cycles of the seasons. His keen ear for the transactions among people is evident, too, as he records the interests and obsessions that preoccupy the Americans he encounters along the way.]]> Sat, 23 Aug 1980 14:12:52 +0300 The Short Reign of Pippin IV https://war.library.land/john-steinbeck/33313-the_short_reign_of_pippin_iv.html https://war.library.land/john-steinbeck/33313-the_short_reign_of_pippin_iv.html

Steinbeck's only work of political satire turns the French Revolution on its head, as amateur astronomer Pippin Heristal is drafted in to rule the unruly French. Enchanting comedy ensues as Steinbeck creates the most hilarious royal court ever around the brief, bold reign of the corduroy-clad Pippin, his social-climbing wife Maria, his star-struck daughter Clotilde and her Californian beau, Todd.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 The Short Novels of John Steinbeck https://war.library.land/john-steinbeck/31542-the_short_novels_of_john_steinbeck.html https://war.library.land/john-steinbeck/31542-the_short_novels_of_john_steinbeck.html

Collected here for the first time in a deluxe paperback volume are six of John Steinbeck's most widely read and beloved novels. From the tale of commitment, loneliness and hope in *Of Mice and Men*, to the tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society in *Cannery Row*, to *The Pearl'*s examination of the fallacy of the American dream, Steinbeck stories of realism, that were imbued with energy and resilience.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 The Pastures of Heaven https://war.library.land/john-steinbeck/31537-the_pastures_of_heaven.html https://war.library.land/john-steinbeck/31537-the_pastures_of_heaven.html

Each of these delightful interconnected tales is devoted to a family living in a fertile valley on the outskirts of Monterey, California, and the effects that one particular family has on them all. Steinbeck tackles two important literary traditions here; American naturalism, with its focus on the conflict between natural instincts and the demand to conform to society's norms, and the short story cycle. Set in the heart of 'Steinbeck land', the lush Californian valleys.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 To a God Unknown https://war.library.land/john-steinbeck/31541-to_a_god_unknown.html https://war.library.land/john-steinbeck/31541-to_a_god_unknown.html

While fulfilling his dead father's dream of creating a prosperous farm in California, Joseph Wayne comes to believe that a magnificent tree on the farm embodies his father's spirit. His brothers and their families share in Joseph's prosperity and the farm flourishes - until one brother, scared by Joseph's pagan belief, kills the tree and brings disease and famine on the farm. Set in familiar Steinbeck country, *To a God Unknown* is a mystical tale, exploring one man's attempt to control the forces of nature and to understand the ways of God.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 Tortilla Flat https://war.library.land/john-steinbeck/31546-tortilla_flat.html https://war.library.land/john-steinbeck/31546-tortilla_flat.html

"Steinbeck is an artist; and he tells the stories of these lovable thieves and adulterers with a gentle and poetic purity of heart and of prose." -- New York Herald Tribune Adopting the structure and themes of the Arthurian legend, Steinbeck created a "Camelot" on a shabby hillside above the town of Monterey,California and peopled it with a colorful band of knights. At the center of the tale is Danny, whose house, like Arthur's castle, becomes a gathering place for men looking for adventure, camaraderie, and a sense of belonging. These "knights" are *paisanos*, men of mixed heritage, whose ancestors settled California hundreds of years before. Free of ties to jobs and other complications of the American way of life, they fiercely resist the corrupting tide of honest toil in the surrounding ocean of civil rectitude. As Steinbeck chronicles their deeds--their multiple loves, their wonderful brawls, their Rabelaisian wine-drinking--he spins a tale as compelling and ultimately as touched by sorrow as the famous legends of the Round Table, which inspired him.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 The Red Pony https://war.library.land/john-steinbeck/31550-the_red_pony.html https://war.library.land/john-steinbeck/31550-the_red_pony.html

Raised on a ranch in northern California, Jody is well-schooled in the hard work and demands of a rancher's life. He is used to the way of horses, too; but nothing has prepared him for the special connection he will forge with Gabilan, a hot-tempered pony his father gives him. With Billy Buck, the hired hand, Jody tends and trains his horse, restlessly anticipating the moment he will sit high upon Gabilan's saddle. But when Gabilan falls ill, Jody discovers there are still lessons he must learn about the ways of nature and, particularly, the ways of man.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 A Russian Journal https://war.library.land/john-steinbeck/33311-a_russian_journal.html https://war.library.land/john-steinbeck/33311-a_russian_journal.html

Just after the iron curtain fell on Eastern Europe John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer, Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune. This rare opportunity took the famous travellers not only to Moscow and Stalingrad - now Volgograd - but through the countryside of the Ukraine and the Caucasus. A RUSSIAN JOURNAL is the distillation of their journey and remains a remarkable memoir and unique historical document. Steinbeck and Capa recorded the grim realities of factory workers, government clerks, and peasants, as they emerged from the rubble of World War II. This is an intimate glimpse of two artists at the height of their powers, answering their need to document human struggle]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 The Winter of Our Discontent https://war.library.land/john-steinbeck/31540-the_winter_of_our_discontent.html https://war.library.land/john-steinbeck/31540-the_winter_of_our_discontent.html

Ethan Allen Hawley, the protagonist of Steinbeck’s last novel, works as a clerk in a grocery store that his family once owned. With Ethan no longer a member of Long Island’s aristocratic class, his wife is restless, and his teenage children are hungry for the tantalizing material comforts he cannot provide. Then one day, in a moment of moral crisis, Ethan decides to take a holiday from his own scrupulous standards. Set in Steinbeck’s contemporary 1960 America, the novel explores the tenuous line between private and public honesty that today ranks it alongside his most acclaimed works of penetrating insight into the American condition. This edition features an introduction and notes by Steinbeck scholar Susan Shillinglaw.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 Once There Was a War https://war.library.land/john-steinbeck/33312-once_there_was_a_war.html https://war.library.land/john-steinbeck/33312-once_there_was_a_war.html

Nobel laureate John Steinbeck's bracing from-the-frontlines account of World War II-now with a new cover and introduction In 1943 John Steinbeck was on assignment for The New York Herald Tribune, writing from Italy and North Africa, and from England in the midst of the London blitz. In his dispatches he focuses on the human-scale effect of the war, portraying everyone from the guys in a bomber crew to Bob Hope on his USO tour and even fighting alongside soldiers behind enemy lines. Taken together, these writings create an indelible portrait of life in wartime.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights https://war.library.land/john-steinbeck/31549-the_acts_of_king_arthur_and_his_noble_knights.html https://war.library.land/john-steinbeck/31549-the_acts_of_king_arthur_and_his_noble_knights.html

Steinbeck's first posthumously published work, The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights is a reinterpretation of tales from Malory's Morte d'Arthur. In this highly successful attempt to render Malory into Modern English, Steinbeck recreated the rhythm and tone of the original Middle English.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300 East of Eden https://war.library.land/john-steinbeck/31545-east_of_eden.html https://war.library.land/john-steinbeck/31545-east_of_eden.html

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. Here Steinbeck created some of his most memorable characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity; the inexplicability of love; and the murderous consequences of love’s absence.]]> Wed, 14 Sep 1977 21:47:48 +0300