The Pearl
February 27 marks the great Steinbeck's 100th birthday, and the  publishing world is celebrating appropriately. The Library of  America volume collects the author's little-known 1942 novel The  Moon Is Down along with popular standards Cannery Row (1945),  The Pearl (1947), and East of Eden (1952). If you prefer  individual copies, Penguin is also releasing top-quality  paperback Centennial Editions of several of Steinbeck's titles,  which in addition to those listed above and those in the Library  of America collection include his travelog Travels with Charley  in Search of America (ISBN 0-14-200070-1) and the Pulitzer Prize  winner The Grapes of Wrath (ISBN 0-14-200066-3), perhaps the  greatest American novel of the 20th century. Penguin, which  publishes Steinbeck's 26 works, reports that the volumes still  sell more than one million copies annually. Happy birthday, big  guy!Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an alternatePaperbackedition.