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The masterpiece of Steinbeck's later years, East of Eden is a sprawling epic in which his most mesmerizing characters and enduring themes were created and explored: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love's absence. Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this expansive and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families, the Trasks and the Hamiltons, whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. East of Eden was a 1955 film introducing James Dean, the book that revived Oprah's Book Club, considered by Steinbeck to be his magnum opus, and has remained vitally present in American culture for over half a century.
Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved. JOHN STEINBECK was an American author of over fifty works, including novels, non-fiction works, and short story collections, who won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Salinas, California in 1902, Steinbeck grew up in an agricultural valley near the Pacific Coast, which both served as the settings for some of his best fiction. He attended Stanford University and worked as a laborer and journalist in New York City before writing his first novel, Cup of Gold, in 1929. He continued to write major novels through the rest of his years, including Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath, winner of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize in 1939, in addition to becoming a filmmaker and a student of marine biology in the early 1940s. In his later years he produced major titles such as Cannery Row, Travels with Charley in Search of America, and East of Eden. In 1964 Steinbeck was presented the United States Medal of Freedom. He died in New York in 1968. He remains one of America's greatest writers and cultural figures today.
Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved. JOHN STEINBECK was an American author of over fifty works, including novels, non-fiction works, and short story collections, who won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Salinas, California in 1902, Steinbeck grew up in an agricultural valley near the Pacific Coast, which both served as the settings for some of his best fiction. He attended Stanford University and worked as a laborer and journalist in New York City before writing his first novel, Cup of Gold, in 1929. He continued to write major novels through the rest of his years, including Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath, winner of the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize in 1939, in addition to becoming a filmmaker and a student of marine biology in the early 1940s. In his later years he produced major titles such as Cannery Row, Travels with Charley in Search of America, and East of Eden. In 1964 Steinbeck was presented the United States Medal of Freedom. He died in New York in 1968. He remains one of America's greatest writers and cultural figures today.