27 Ebooks by Mr John Steinbeck
Mr John Steinbeck: Tortilla Flat
Steinbeck”s first major critical and commercial success, TORTILLA FLAT is also his funniest novel. Danny is a paisano, descended from the original Spanish settlers who arrived in Monterey, …
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John Steinbeck: Log from the Sea of Cortez
In 1940 Steinbeck sailed in a sardine boat with his great friend the marine biologist, Ed Ricketts, to collect marine invertebrates from the beaches of the Gulf of California. The expedition was …
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€12.99
Mr John Steinbeck: Wayward Bus
‘One of Steinbeck’s best books’ Newsweek The Wayward Bus travels through the backroads of the lush California countryside, transporting the lost and the lonely to new destinations. Juan Chicoy is at …
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John Steinbeck: In Dubious Battle
Both a fast-paced story of social unrest and strike, and the tale of one young man’s struggle for identity, IN DUBIOUS BATTLE is a novel about the apocalyptic violence that breaks out when the masses …
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John Steinbeck: Burning Bright
‘A man can’t scrap his bloodline, can’t snip the thread of immortality.’ Such is the strength of Joe Saul’s desperate longing for a child, that he feels as if a dark curse is upon him after three …
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John Steinbeck: Short Reign of Pippin IV
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 …
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John Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men
Drifters in search of work, George and his childlike friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except the clothes on their back – and a dream that one day they will have some land of their own. …
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John Steinbeck: Cannery Row
One of the BBC’s ‘100 Novels That Shaped Our World”Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.’ Meet the …
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John Steinbeck: East of Eden
”A fantasia of history and myth … a strange and original work of art” The New York Times Book Review Described by John Steinbeck as ”the story of my country and the story of me”, East of Eden i …
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John Steinbeck: Red Pony
Young Jody Tiflin lives on his father’s California ranch. He is thrilled when his father gives him a red pony, and later promises him the colt of a bay mare. Both these gifts bring joy to Jodi’s life …
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€7.99
John Steinbeck: Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights
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 …
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John Steinbeck: To a God Unknown
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 …
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John Steinbeck: Travels with Charley
In 1960, John Steinbeck set out in his pick-up truck with his dog Charley to rediscover and chronicle his native USA, from Maine to California.He felt that he might have lost touch with its sights, …
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John Steinbeck: Moon is Down
Originally published at the zenith of Nazi Germany’s power, Steinbeck’s fable THE MOON IS DOWN explores the effects of invasion on both the conquered and the conquerors. Occupied by enemy troops, a …
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John Steinbeck: Long Valley
This classic collection of short stories serves as the ideal introduction to Steinbeck’s work. Set in the idyllic Salinas Valley in California, where simple people farm the land and struggle to find …
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John Steinbeck: Grapes of Wrath
Shocking and controversial when it was first published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic remains his undisputed masterpiece.Set against the background of dust bowl Oklahoma and …
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John Steinbeck: Cup Of Gold
This lush, lyrical fantasy is Steinbeck’s sole work of historical fiction. Henry Morgan ruled the Spanish Main in the 1670s, ravaging the coasts of Cuba and America and striking terror wherever he …
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John Steinbeck: Pastures of Heaven
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. …
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John Steinbeck: Once There Was a War
Set in England, Africa and Italy this collection of Steinbeck’s World War II news correspondence was written for the New Yolk Herald Tribune in the latter part of …
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John Steinbeck: Zapata
A new volume which includes the original screenplay, with its copious director’s notes, and the narrative – this has followed on from a previously undiscovered manuscript by Steinbeck being found in …
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Mr John Steinbeck: Pearl
THE PEARL is Steinbeck’s flawless parable about wealth and the evil it can bring. When Kino, an Indian pearl-diver, finds ‘the Pearl of the world’ he believes that his life will be magically …
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John Steinbeck: Sweet Thursday
In Monterey, on the California Coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday, which is one of those days that’s just naturally bad. Returning to the scene of CANNERY ROW, the …
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Mr John Steinbeck: Red Pony
Jody Tiflin has the urge for rebellion, but he also wants to be loved. In THE RED PONY, Jody begins to learn about adulthood – its pain, its responsibilities and its problems – through his acceptance …
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Mr John Steinbeck: The Winter of Our Discontent
Steinbeck”s last great novel focuses on the theme of success and what motivates men towards it. Reflecting back on his New England family”s past fortune, and his father”s loss of the family …
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John Steinbeck: Life in Letters
Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck was a prolific correspondent. Opening with letters written during Steinbeck’s early years in California, and closing with an unfinished, 1968 note written in Sag …
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€19.99
John Steinbeck: The Pearl
Kino is a desperately poor Mexican-pearl diver. But when he finds ”The Pearl of the World” he believes that his life will be magically transformed. Obsessed by his dreams, Kino is blind to the gree …
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€6.49
John Steinbeck: Journal of a Novel
This collection of letters forms a fascinating day-by-day account of Steinbeck’s writing of EAST OF EDEN, his longest and most ambitious novel. The letters, ranging over many subjects – textual …
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