You picked up this book because you know the feeling of sitting in a school parking lot with 15 minutes to find the permission slip you had 4 hours ago, or because you have apologized to your partner for the same dropped ball so many times that the apology became a weekly event. You love your kids with everything you have, and you are tired of watching that love fail to arrive on time because your brain was not built to hold a home in its working memory. You are a good father, and this boo...

The masterpiece of Steinbeck’s later years—at once a family saga and a modern retelling of the Book of Genesis—now a Netflix limited series, written and executive produced by Zoe Kazan, starring Florence PughIn his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden “the first book,” and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California’s Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follow...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers.One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsFirst 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 we...

A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of Steinbeck's brilliant short novelsCollected 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 wi...

A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America’s most enduring authors, in a commemorative hardcover editionIn his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. 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—who...

There is only one book to a man' Steinbeck wrote of East of Eden. Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel, follows the interwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations hopelessly re-enact 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 indentity; the inexplicabilit...

"Cup of Gold" is a novel by John Steinbeck that tells the story of the legendary pirate Henry Morgan. The book is set in the 17th century and explores themes of adventure, ambition, and the pursuit of dreams. It is a tale of a man who seeks fortune and glory on the high seas. The story begins with the background of Henry Morgan. He is a young man from Wales who dreams of becoming a great pirate. He is driven by a desire for wealth and power. Morgan’s ambition leads him to the Caribbean, wh...

**A controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great DepressionA Penguin Classic**Over seventy-five years since its first publication, Steinbeck’s tale of commitment, loneliness, hope, and loss remains one of America’s most widely read and taught novels. An unlikely pair, George and Lennie, two migrant workers in California during the Great Depression, grasp for their American Dream. They hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For George a...

"In the town they tell the story of the great pearl - how it was found and how it was lost again. They tell of Kino, the fisherman, and of his wife, Juana, and of the baby, Coyotito. And because the story has been told so often, it has taken root in every man's mind. And, as with all retold tales that are in people's hearts, there are only good and bad things and black and white things and good and evil things and no in-between anywhere.If this story is a parable, perhaps everyone takes hi...

The Red Pony, written by John Steinbeck, is a story about a boy named Jody that is divided into four sections; The Gift, The Great Mountains, The Promise, and The Leader of the People. Jody's father is Carl Tiflin, who owns a ranch with only one employee, Billy Buck

Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, with Occasional Reference to History was John Steinbeck's first novel, a work of historical fiction based loosely on the life and death of 17th-century privateer Henry Morgan.

Meet the gamblers, whores, drunks, bums and artists of Cannery Row in Monterey, California, during the Great Depression. They want to throw a party for their friend Doc, so Mack and the boys set about, in their own inimitable way, recruiting everyone in the neighbourhood to the cause. But along the way they can't help but get involved in a little mischief and misadventure. It wouldn't be Cannery Row if it was otherwise, now would it?Packed with a ramshackle joi de vivre, Cannery Row...