John Steinbeck
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Pub. Date
2012.
Description
A collection of the dispatches Steinbeck wrote as a war correspondent for Newsday. Rejected by the military because of his reputation as a subversive, and reticent to document the war officially for the Johnson administration, Steinbeck saw in Newsday a unique opportunity to put his skills to use. Between December 1966 and May 1967, the sixty-four-year-old Steinbeck toured the major combat areas of South Vietnam and traveled to the north of Thailand...
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Series
Pub. Date
c2002
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A collection of stories includes "The Moon is down," which details the transformation of ordinary life under Nazi rule in an unnamed Scandinavian country under German occupation, as well as "Cannery Row," "The Pearl," and "East of Eden."
"The Moon Is Down (1942), set in an unnamed Scandinavian country under German occupation, dramatizes the transformation of ordinary life under totalitarian rule and the underground struggle against the Nazi invaders....
Author
Pub. Date
2009
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"The collaboration of two friends -- one a novelist, one a marine biologist -- produced a volume in which fascinating popular science is woven into a narrative of man's dreams, his ideals, and his accomplishments through the centuries. Sea of Cortez is one of those rare books that are all things to all readers. Actually the record of a brief collecting expedition in the lonely Gulf of California, it will be science to the scientist, philosophy to...
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
An intimate portrait of two men who cherish the slim bond between them and the dream they share in a world marred by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy,and callousness. Clinging to each other in their loneliness and alienation, George and his simple-minded friend Lenny dream, as drifters will, of a place to call their own - a couple of acres and a few pigs, chickens, and rabbits back in Hill Country where land is cheap. But after they come...
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Pub. Date
c1952
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This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, 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.
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Pub. Date
2002.
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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 of Wrath...
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Pub. Date
c1978
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54) Of mice and men
Pub. Date
1992.
Description
In Depression-era California, two migrant workers dream of better days on a spread of their own until an act of unintentional violence leads to tragic consequences.
55) Of mice and men
Pub. Date
2005.
Description
Best friends Lennie and George find themselves unemployed in Depression-era California, unable to maintain a stable working pattern for long because of Lennie's infantile mental capacity. They get hired at the Tyler Ranch but soon their work is ripped apart by tragedy when Curly's beautiful but unhappy wife becomes the innocent victim of Lennie's compassion.
Pub. Date
1986
Description
Includes, concerning the Spanish Civil War, statements personal accounts, fiction, essays, and poetry by W. H. Auden, John Dos Passos, Louis MacNeice, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, William Carlos Williams, Federico Garcia Lorca, Thomas Mann, Antoine De Saint-Exupery, George Orwell, Kenneth Rexroth, Arthur Koestler, Wyndham Lewis, John Steinbeck, Ezra Pound, William Faulkner, T. S. Eliot, Evelyn Waugh, Samuel Beckett, Luis Bunuel, I. F. Stone, Pablo...