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East of Eden

East of Eden Paperback - 2002

by Steinbeck, John

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  • Title East of Eden
  • Author Steinbeck, John
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition CENTENNIAL EDITI
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 601
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Group, New York
  • Date 2002-02-05
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR003778634
  • ISBN 9780142000656 / 0142000655
  • Weight 1.41 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.52 x 5.8 x 1.59 in (21.64 x 14.73 x 4.04 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Reading level 700
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Historical fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001054433
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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About this book

East of Eden is a novel by John Steinbeck, published in 1952. It tells the multi-generational story of two families, the Hamiltons and the Trasks, in California's Salinas Valley. The novel explores themes of good and evil, love and hate, and the human capacity for both. It also delves into the nature of family dynamics, inheritance, and the American dream. The characters are complex and nuanced, and the novel's narrative structure allows for a deep exploration of their motivations and emotions. East of Eden is considered one of Steinbeck's most ambitious works and a masterpiece of American literature.

Summary

In his journal, John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this sprawling 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. Adam Trask came to California from the East to farm and raise his family on the new, rich land. But the birth of his twins, Cal and Aron, brings his wife to the brink of madness, and Adam is left alone to raise his boys to manhood. One boy thrives, nurtured by the love of all those around him; the other grows up in loneliness, enveloped by a mysterious darkness. First published in 1952, East of Eden is the work in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love's absence. A masterpiece of Steinbeck's later years, East of Eden is a powerful and vastly ambitious novel that is at once a family saga and a modern retelling of the Book of Genesis.

First Edition Identification

East of Eden’s true first edition (Viking Press; New York, 1952) is a limited edition of only 1,500 copies signed by Steinbeck. This signed limited first edition has dark green boards and came in a slipcase. 750 copies of this signed limited first edition were for private distribution. The original cloth binding is stamped in gilt and brown, in a faux-wood grain slipcase. 

The first trade edition states "First published by The Viking Press in September 1952" on the copyright page with no statements of subsequent printings, and the year 1952 on the title page. Boards are light green. Dust jacket has Steinbeck's photo on the rear with no blurbs. The first state has "bite" on page 281, line 38.


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