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Dünya edebiyatinin en güclü kalemlerinden, destansi romanlarin usta yazari John Steinbeck bu kez anlatinin en zor, en rafine türüne, öyküye yöneliyor. Salinas vadisinin tepelerinden, kanyonlarindan, kücük kasabalarindan gecerek siradan insanlarin kücük, yalin dünyalarindan evrensel temalar yaratmayi yine basariyor. 1930lar Amerikasinin hüzünlü ama umutlu, yalniz ama direngen karakterleri, kent ve kir, gecmis ve gelecek arasindaki celiskilerle ...

In september 1960 beginnen John Steinbeck en zijn poedel Charley aan een lange reis door Amerika, van Long Island naar de Pacific en via Texas en het diepe Zuiden terug naar New York. Hij reist met een speciaal voor deze reis gebouwde camper, de Rocinante, via kleine stadjes en groeiende steden naar schitterende oases in de wildernis en doet uitgebreid verslag van de obsessies en eigenaardigheden van de Amerikanen die hij onderweg tegenkomt. ...

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John Steinbeck torna nei luoghi di "Vicolo Cannery" per raccontare il mondo allegro di barboni, ubriachi e prostitute che anima le strade di Monterey, California, subito dopo la seconda guerra mondiale. La città saluta con euforia il ritorno del biologo Doc dal fronte, ma i suoi occhi hanno perso la leggerezza del passato, la sua generosità verso gli altri nasconde ora una tristezza da cui cerca di fuggire dedicandosi ai propri studi. Intorno ...

A quasi ottant'anni dalla sua pubblicazione questo romanzo, che decretò il successo letterario di John Steinbeck, conserva intatto il fascino dell'epopea americana. "Plan della Tortilla" è il quartiere di Monterey in cui vivono i paisanos, un luogo dove sopravvivere è il fine primario. Discendenti dei primi californiani, formano una colonia di gente povera ma felice, di perdigiorno amorali ma intimamente incoscienti nelle cui vene si intreccia...

Nel paese di Nod, a est de] giardino dell'Eden, dove la progenie di Caino andò a vivere secondo la leggenda biblica e che nel romanzo di John Steinbeck corrisponde simbolicamente alla valle percorsa dal fiume Salinas nella California settentrionale, si intrecciano le storie di due famiglie, gli Hamilton e i Trask. Protagonisti della saga, che va dalla Guerra civile alla Prima guerra mondiale, da una parte il vecchio Samuel Hamilton, immigrato ...

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A Sony Radio Academy Award winning dramatisation of John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, about economic migration and the endurance of the human spirit.In the midst of America's Great Depression, the Joad family travel from Oklahoma to California in search of work, only to discover thousands like them have also been on the move. Just as their money and food run out, they find work on a peach farm - but discover they're breaking a str...

Amid the sardine canneries, vacant lots, flophouses and honky-tonks of Monterey, Steinbeck assembles a colourful gallery of characters, including Lee Chong the grocer, Doc the marine biologist who surprisingly finds love, and Dora Flood, the flamboyent bordello proprietess.

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In September 1960, John Steinbeck embarked on a journey across America. He felt that he might have lost touch with the country, with its speech, the smell of its grass and trees, its color and quality of light, the pulse of its people. To reassure himself, he set out on a voyage of rediscovery of the American identity, accompanied by a distinguished French poodle named Charley, and riding in a three-quarter-ton pickup truck named Rocinante. Hi...

Celebrating its 75th anniversary, John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men remains one of America's most widely read and beloved novels. Here is Steinbeck's dramatic adaptation of his novel-as-play, which received the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play in 1937-1938 and has featured a number of actors who have played the iconic roles of George and Lennie on stage and film, including James Earl Jones, John Malkovich and Gary Sinise.From ...

April 2014 marks the 75th anniversary of the first Viking hardcover publication of Steinbeck's crowning literary achievementFirst 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 west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeat...

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Occupied by enemy troops, a small, peaceable town comes face-to-face with evil imposed from the outside-and betrayal born within the close-knit communityA Penguin Classic In this masterful tale set in Norway during World War II, Steinbeck explores the effects of invasion on both the conquered and the conquerors. As he delves into the emotions of the German commander and the Norwegian traitor, and depicts the spirited patriotism of the Norwegia...

A Penguin ClassicWritten at a time of profound anxiety caused by the illness of his mother, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck draws on his memories of childhood in these stories about a boy who embodies both the rebellious spirit and the contradictory desire for acceptance of early adolescence. Unlike most coming-of-age stories, the cycle does not end with a hero "matured" by circumstances. As John Seelye writes in his introduction, reversing ...