John Steinbeck
Author
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Books USA
Pub. Date
1994
Physical Desc
909 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of the novels and short stories written by John Steinbeck from 1932 to 1937, including "To a God Unknown," "Tortilla Flat," "In Dubious Battle," and "Of Mice and Men."
Author
Series
Library of America volume 86
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Books USA
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
1067 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Contains writings completed by Steinbeck between 1936 and 1941, featuring "The Grapes of Wrath," and including a report on migrant workers, several short stories, and an account of a marine expedition.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xxxiii, 291 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ethan Allen Hawley, the protagonist of the novel, works as a clerk in a grocery store that his family once owned. With the decline in their status, his wife is restless, and his teenage children are hungry for the material comforts they can no longer afford provide. Then one day, in a moment of moral crisis, Ethan decides to take a holiday from his own scrupulous standards.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1976, c1971
Physical Desc
692 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The Portable Steinbeck is a grand sampling of this writer's most important works. Here are the complete novels "Of Mice and Men" and "The Red Pony", together with self-contained excerpts from "The Long Valley", "Tortilla Flat", "In Dubious Battle" (celebrated as "America's best strike novel"), "The Grapes of Wrath", his epic of the Okie migration of the Great Depression, "Cannery Row", "East of Eden", "Travels with Charley", and other books; two previously...
6) East of Eden
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005, c1954
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The saga of three generations of the Trask and Hamilton families in the early 1900's in Northern California.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000, c1939
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 114 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the middle of the Great Depression, Lennie and George find work on the Tyler Ranch, planning on saving towards a place of their own. Their plan is disrupted when Lennie gets into trouble with the owner's son and his unhappy wife.