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Im Frühjahr 1940 verließen John Steinbeck und sein bester Freund, der Meeresbiologe Ed Ricketts, an Bord eines Sardinenkutters den Hafen von Monterey.Sie wollten die Tierwelt der kalifornischen Küste untersuchen, das »wahre Leben« dabei aber keinesfalls aus den Augen verlieren: So enthält Steinbocks »Logbuch« Beschreibungen der von den Gezeiten geprägten Fauna - und daneben höchst unterhaltsame Einlassungen über mythische Meerwesen, den Fortpf...

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Surely his most interesting, plausibly his most memorable, and . . . arguably his best book" -The New York Times Book ReviewFor John Steinbeck, who hated the telephone, letter-writing was a preparation for work and a natural way for him to communicate his thoughts on people he liked and hated, on marriage, women, and children, on the condition of the world, and on his progress in learning his craft. Opening with letters written during Steinbec...

The second volume in The Library of America's authoritative edition of John Steinbeck features his acknowledged masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath. Written in an incredibly compressed five-month period, the novel had an electrifying impact upon publication in 1939. Tracing the journey of the Joad family from the dust bowl of Oklahoma to the migrant camps of California, Steinbeck creates an American epic, spacious, impassioned, and pulsating with...

The Library of America presents for the first time in one volume Steinbeck's early writings, which expressed his abiding concerns for community, social justice, and the elemental connection between nature and human society. In prose that blends the vernacular and the incantatory, the local and the mythic, these five works chart Steinbeck's evolution into one of the greatest and most enduring popular of American novelists. The Pastures of Heave...