John Steinbeck

A hefty selection from the Nobel Prize-winner's voluminous correspondence offers an intimate view of Steinbeck learning and practicing his craft.

Powerful, social document of the plight of "Okies" during 1930's.

This exciting day-by-day account of Steinbeck's trip to the Gulf of California with biologist Ed Ricketts, drawn from the longer Sea of Cortez, is a wonderful combination of science, philosophy, and high-spirited adventure. Annotation. In 1940, Steinbeck and his friend, biologist Ed Ricketts, ventured into the Gulf of California to search for marine invertebrates along the beaches. This exciting, day-by-day account of their trip, drawn from the longer...

This classic collection, first published in 1938, serves as a wonderful introduction to Steinbeck's work. These stories reflect Steinbeck's characteristic interests--the tensions between town and country, laborers and owners, past and present.

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.

A retelling, in modern language, of Malory's tales of King Arthur and his knights.

Roughtongued, ribaled men yearn for land of their own. Of Mice and Men in Spanish Language