Novels 1942-1952
Subtitle: The Moon is Down / Cannery Row / The Pearl / East of Eden
By: John Steinbeck.
Edition: 2nd printing
Series: Library of America 132
Publisher: Library of America; Distributed to the trade in the United States by Penguin Putnam
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 983
ISBN-13: 9781931082075
Copyright date: 2001
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction; United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: The Moon is Down / Cannery Row / The Pearl / East of Eden; Cannery Row.; Pearl.; East of Eden.
Description: John Steinbeck has earned a place as one of America's most enduringly popular writers. Here, in the third volume of The Library of America's authoritative edition of his writings, are four novels that give ample evidence of his remarkable range and unique accessibility. The Moon is Down, inspired by refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe and widely circulated among resistance fighters during the war, vividly dramatizes the transformation of ordinary life under totalitarianism. Cannery Row's comic and bawdy evocation of the sardine-canning district of Montery has made it one of Steinbeck's best-loved books. The Pearl--is a haunting parables one that distills Steinbeck's long involvement with the people and culture of Mexico. East of Eden, perhaps Steinbeck's most ambitious work, is an epic exploration of his most anguished concerns, drawing on the Bible and a rich archive of local and family history spanning many generations.
--back cover
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 974-983).
Table of contents: title: The moon is down; title: Cannery Row; title: The pearl; title: East of Eden.