John Steinbeck: Novels and Stories 1932-1937 (LOA #72)
The Pastures of Heaven / To a God Unknown / Tortilla Flat / In Dubious Battle / Of Mice and Men
$76.59
- Hardcover
912 pages
- Release Date
1 September 1994
Summary
The Library of America presents for the first time in one volume Steinbeck’s early writings, which expressed his abiding concerns for community, social justice, and the elemental connection between nature and human society. In prose that blends the vernacular and the incantatory, the local and the mythic, these five works chart Steinbeck’s evolution into one of the greatest and most enduring popular of American novelists.
The Pastures of Heaven (1932), a collection of interre…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781883011017 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1883011019 |
| Author: | John Steinbeck, Robert DeMott, Elaine Steinbeck |
| Publisher: | The Library of America |
| Imprint: | The Library of America |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 912 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 1994 |
| Weight: | 584g |
| Dimensions: | 29mm x 133mm x 207mm |
| Series: | Library of America John Steinbeck Edition |
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Critics Review
“John Steinbeck was a born storyteller of vividly interesting tales. His capacity to bring alive realistic scenes and authentic speech was really quite exceptional.” – The New Criterion
“John Steinbeck was a born storyteller of vividly interesting tales. His capacity to bring alive realistic scenes and authentic speech was really quite exceptional.” —The New Criterion
John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck (1902-1968) is the author of celebrated works such as Tortilla Flat (1935), Of Mice and Men (1937), and The Grapes of Wrath (1939), for which he won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962.
Robert DeMott and Elaine A. Steinbeck (1914-2003) are the editors of this volume.
Robert DeMott 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.
Elaine A. Steinbeck, co-editor of Steinbeck: A Life in Letters, was married to John Steinbeck from 1950 until his death in 1968.
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