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Nobel-Prize winning author John Steinbeck is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. His complete works will be available in Penguin Modern Classics

Zum 100. Geburtstag des Nobelpreisträgers erscheint Steinbecks berühmter Roman in neuer Übersetzung von Burkhart Kroeber. Wie kein anderer hat Steinbeck auch in diesem Buch die Vielfalt und die Widersprüchlichkeit seines Landes dargestellt. 1960 macht sich der damals 58-jährige noch einmal "auf die Suche nach Amerika" und fährt in Begleitung seines Pudels Charley elf Wochen quer durch 34 Bundesstaaten. Ironische Beobachtungen, skurrile Begegnu...

Streetwise George and his big, childlike friend Lennie are drifters, searching for work in the fields and valleys of California. They have nothing except the clothes on their back, and a hope that one day they'll find a place of their own and live the American dream. But dreams come at a price. Gentle giant Lennie doesn't know his own strength, and when they find work at a ranch he gets into trouble with the boss's daughter-in-law. Trouble so ...

Passend zum Schwerpunktthema "The American Dream"John Steinbeck beschreibt in Of Mice and Men die Auseinandersetzung zwischen Wanderarbeitern, einer einsamen Frau und Ranchhelfern mit einem Ranchbesitzer und seinem Sohn im Amerika zur Zeit der Großen Depression in den 1930ern. Diese Auseinandersetzung wird zum Synonym für den Konflikt mit einer Sozialstruktur, die Arbeiter als ersetzbare Objekte anstatt als wertvolle Menschen ansieht. Die Entd...

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John Steinbeck, berühmt geworden als Chronist des Lebens in Armut, zeichnet das Bild vom Leben der einfachenund einfältigen Leute von Cannery Row, einer Gegend der Ölsardinen und Konservenbüchsen. Huren und Spieler bevölkern den Roman, oder auch - je nach Standpunkt - Heilige und Engel, Menschen in jedem Fall. Steinbeck beschreibt sie mit einfühlsamem Humor, moralischem Anspruch und sozialkritischem Engagement, aber auch mit scharfer Ironie un...

Of Mice and Men is an adapted Upper level reader written by John Steinbeck. This is the tragic story of George and Lennie who travelled to different farms looking for work. George is a clever man but Lennie's size is always getting them into trouble. Things are going well when they find a job but that soon changes and leads to a tragic end.

The Grapes of Wrath is a landmark of American literature. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man's fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman's stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation, The Grapes o...

Als Sprecher der kalifornischen Apfelplantagen-Arbeiter in Torgas Valley soll Jim Nolan gemeinsam mit dem erfahrenen Arbeiterführer Mac einen Streik gegen die Plantagenbesitzer organisieren. Diese haben kurz vor der Ernte die Löhne gesenkt. Der Kampf gegen die Machthaber erweist sich nach ersten Erfolgen jedoch als beinahe aussichtslos. Jim Nolan vertritt die Rechte der Arbeiter gegen einen arroganten, brutalen und scheinbar übermächtigen Gegn...

Unter geheimnisvollen Umständen von Uther gezeugt und unter der Obhut des Zauberers Merlin zum jungen Mann geworden, macht die Schwertprobe Artus überraschend zum König. Mit nahezu grenzenlosem Enthusiasmus arbeitet John Steinbeck in seinen letzten Lebensjahren an der Neuerzählung dieser britischen Urlegende. Seine Nacherzählung der Sage vom unvergleichlichen König, von Gawain, Ewain, Lancelot und den anderen Rittern der Tafelrunde, ihren Aben...

Hubo una vez una guerra" constituye uno de los libros más veraces y sinceros que se han escrito nunca sobre la segunda guerra mundial y nos muestra una parte poco conocida de Steinbeck en su faceta de reportero y articulista.Publicados originalmente en el "New York Herald Tribune" a lo largo de 1943, los textos reunidos por el porpio autor en este libro nos ofrecen una impresionante imagen de la vida coticiana en una Inglaterra sometida a demo...

Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. His complete works will be available in Penguin Modern Classics.

The Grapes of Wrath is the brilliantly written story depicting the life of Americans during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s when Oklahoma farmers were forced off the land they had farmed for generations and they moved to California for the better life they believed they would find picking peaches and grapes. The Grapes of Wrath was written in 1939 by John Steinbeck (1902-1968). In 1940 it was made into a movie staring Henry Fonda. The title comes...

Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. His complete works will be available in Penguin Modern Classics.

A red pony colt was looking at him out of the stall. Its tense ears were forward and a light of disobedience was in its eyes. Its coat was rough and thick as an Airedale's fur and its mane was long and tangled.' Jody Tiflin is a ten-year-old boy, living on his father's ranch. One day his father brings home a small pony. He's Jody's, if the boy will learn to feed, clean, stable and care for him. But Jody learns, through the colt, and through hi...

Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. His complete works will be available in Penguin Modern Classics.

A Penguin ClassicFirst published in 1938, this volume of stories collected with the encouragement of his longtime editor Pascal Covici serves as a wonderful introduction to the work of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck. Set in the beautiful Salinas Valley of California, where simple people farm the land and struggle to find a place for themselves in the world, these stories reflect Steinbeck's characteristic interests: the tensions between tow...

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Although his career continued for almost three decades after the 1939 publication of The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck is still most closely associated with his Depression-era works of social struggle. But from Pearl Harbor on, he often wrote passionate accounts of America's wars based on his own firsthand experience. Vietnam was no exception.Thomas E. Barden's "Steinbeck in Vietnam" offers for the first time a complete collection of the dis...

A selection of essential writings by one of the greatest writers in American historyIt would be impossible to overstate John Steinbeck's enduring influence on American letters. Profuse with a richness of language, sly humor, and empathy for even his most flawed characters, Steinbeck's books are still widely read and deeply relevant today. The Portable Steinbeck is a grand sampling of his most important and popular works. Here are the complete ...