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The Grapes Of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
stands as a pivotal piece of American literature. The story follows
the Joad family (and thousands of others) as they are driven from the
Oklahoma farm where they are sharecroppers during the Great
Depression. The drought, economic hardship, and changes in financial
and agricultural industries send them searching for dignity and
honest work in the bountiful state of California.
The novel earned Steinbeck the Pulitzer
Prize for fiction in 1940, and inspired the... Read more about this item
stands as a pivotal piece of American literature. The story follows
the Joad family (and thousands of others) as they are driven from the
Oklahoma farm where they are sharecroppers during the Great
Depression. The drought, economic hardship, and changes in financial
and agricultural industries send them searching for dignity and
honest work in the bountiful state of California.
The novel earned Steinbeck the Pulitzer
Prize for fiction in 1940, and inspired the... Read more about this item
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men is a novella written by Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck. Published in 1937, it tells the tragic story of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers during the Great Depression in California.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...
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East Of Eden
by John Steinbeck
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...
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Cannery Row
by John Steinbeck
Cannery Row is the waterfront street in the New Monterey section of Monterey, California, USA. It is the site of a number of now-defunct sardine canning factories. The street name, formerly a nickname for Ocean View Avenue, became official in January 1958 to honor John Steinbeck and his famous novel Cannery Row.
The Moon Is Down
by John Steinbeck
In this masterful tale set in Norway during World War II, Steinbeck explores the effects of invasion on both the conquered and the conquerors. As he delves into the emotions of the German commander and the Norwegian traitor, and depicts the spirited patriotism of the Norwegian underground, Steinbeck uncovers profound, often unsettling truths about war—and about human nature. Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck’s self-described “celebration of the durability of democracy”...
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The Pearl
by John Steinbeck
Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf beds that once brought great wealth to the Kings of Spain and now provide Kino, Juana, and their infant son with meager subsistence. Then, on a day like any other, Kino emerges from the sea with a pearl as large as a sea gull's egg, as "perfect as the moon." With the pearl comes hope, the promise of comfort and of security . . . A story of classic simplicity, based on a Mexican folk tale, The...
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The Winter Of Our Discontent
by John Steinbeck
The Winter of Our Discontent published in 1961, is John Steinbeck's last novel. The title is a reference to the line "Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son [or sun] of York," from William Shakespeare's Richard III.
Travels With Charley
by John Steinbeck
Travels with Charley: In Search of America is a travelogue by American author John Steinbeck. It documents the road trip he took with his French standard poodle Charley around the United States, in 1960. He wrote that he was moved by a desire to see his country on a personal level, since he made his living writing about it.
Sweet Thursday
by John Steinbeck
Sweet Thursday is a 1954 novel by John Steinbeck. It is a sequel to Cannery Row and set in the years after the end of World War II. According to the author, "Sweet Thursday" is the day after Lousy Wednesday and the day before Waiting Friday.
The Wayward Bus
by John Steinbeck
Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America's greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, his many works, beginning with the six shown here, will be published as black-spine Penguin Classics for the first time and will feature eye-catching, newly commissioned art.Of this initial group of six titles, The Wayward Bus is in a new edition. An imaginative and unsentimental chronicle of a bus traveling California's back roads. This...
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Tortilla Flat
by John Steinbeck
Tortilla Flat (1935) is an early Steinbeck novel set in Monterey, California. The book portrays with great sympathy and humour a group of paisanos (fellows/countrymen), denouncing society by enjoying life and wine in the idyllic days after the end of the Great War and preceding U.S. prohibition. Tortilla Flat was made into a film in 1942. Steinbeck would later return to the some of the panhandling locals of Monterey (though not the Spanish paisanos of the Flat) in his novel Cannery Row (1945).
The Red Pony
by John Steinbeck
"The Red Pony" is an episodic novella written by American writer John Steinbeck in 1933. The first three chapters were published in magazines from 1933–1936, and the full book was published in 1937 by Viking Penguin. The stories in the book are tales of a boy named Jody Tiflin. The book has four different stories about Jody and his life on his father's California ranch.
A Russian Journal
by John Steinbeck
A Russian Journal was written by John Steinbeck and illustrated by photographer Robert Capa as the two traveled through the bloc countries of the Soviet Union during the early years of the Cold War era, shortly after the Iron Curtain fell across Eastern Europe. The journey, intended for a report with the New York Herald Tribune, recorded the grim realities of factory workers, government clerks, and peasants of the region (from Moscow and Stalingrad – now Volgograd – to the countryside of the Ukraine...
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The Long Valley
by John Steinbeck
First published in 1938, this volume of stories collected with the encouragement of his longtime editor Pascal Covici serves as a wonderful introduction to the work of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck. Set in the beautiful Salinas Valley of California, where simple people farm the land and struggle to find a place for themselves in the world, these stories reflect Steinbeck’s characteristic interests: the tensions between town and country, laborers and owners, past and present. Included here...
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The Log From the Sea Of Cortez
by John Steinbeck
Ed Ricketts was the inspiration for the character "Doc" in Steinbeck's novels _Cannery Row and _Sweet Thursday.
The Short Novels Of John Steinbeck
by John Steinbeck
Collected here for the first time in a deluxe paperback volume are six of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck’s most widely read and beloved short novels—Tortilla Flat, The Red Pony, Of Mice and Men, The Moon Is Down, Cannery Row and The Pearl. From Steinbeck’s tale of commitment, loneliness, and hope in Of Mice and Men, to his tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of Monterey society in Cannery Row, to The Pearl’s mythic examination of the fallacy of the...
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America and Americans
by John Steinbeck
This is a unique selection of nonfiction work by the quintessential American writer.
Cup Of Gold
by John Steinbeck
A STANDOUT in the Steinbeck canon, Cup of Gold is edgy and adventurous, brash and distrustful of society, and sure to add a new dimension to the common perception of this all-American writer. Steinbeck's first novel and sole work of historical fiction contains themes that resonate throughout the author's prodigious body of work. From the mid-1650s through the 1660s, Henry Morgan, a pirate and outlaw of legendary viciousness, ruled the Spanish Main. He ravaged the coasts of Cuba and America, striking...
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The Pastures Of Heaven
by John Steinbeck
The Pastures of Heaven is a novel by John Steinbeck, first published in 1932, consisting of twelve interconnected stories about a valley in Monterey, California, which was discovered by a Spanish corporal while chasing runaway Indian slaves. Enchanted by the valley's natural beauty, the corporal names it Las Pasturas del Cielo or "The Pastures of Heaven.
To a God Unknown
by John Steinbeck
To a God Unknown is a novel by John Steinbeck, first published in 1933. The book was Steinbeck's second novel (after his unsuccessful Cup of Gold), the title taken from a hymn excerpt of the Rig Veda's Book X. Steinbeck found To a God Unknown extremely difficult to write; taking him roughly five years to complete, the novella proved more time-consuming than either East of Eden or The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck's longest novels.
The Short Reign Of Pippin IV
by John Steinbeck
In his only work of political satire, The Short Reign of Pippin IV, John Steinbeck turns the French Revolution upside down as amateur astronomer Pippin Héristal is drafted to rule the unruly French. Steinbeck creates around the infamous Pippin the most hilarious royal court ever: Pippin’s wife, Queen Marie, who “might have taken her place at the bar of a very good restaurant”; his uncle, a man of dubious virtue; his glamour-struck daughter and her beau, the son of the so-called...
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In Dubious Battle
by John Steinbeck
In Dubious Battle is a novel by John Steinbeck, written in 1936. The central figure of the story is an activist for "the Party" (the American Communist Party, although it is never specifically named in the novel) who is organizing a major strike by the workers, seeking thus to attract followers to his cause. In Steinbeck's obituary, the New York Times said that "Although the writer's sympathies were clearly with the strikers...
John Steinbeck Books & Ephemera
The Acts Of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
by Steinbeck, John
Steinbeck seeks to update the rich legends of King Arthur in his adaptation titled The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights.
The tale begins with the birth of Arthur, heir to the throne, and son of Uther Pendragon, and follows him through the quests that made him legend.
The tale begins with the birth of Arthur, heir to the throne, and son of Uther Pendragon, and follows him through the quests that made him legend.
Of Mice and Men (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
by John Steinbeck
Bt Bound, 1999. School & Library Binding. New. school & library ed. edition. 107 pages. 7.00x4.50x0.50 inches.
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Cannery Row
by Steinbeck, John
Penguin Books, 1993. Mass Market Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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NZ$10.18
Once There Was a War
by STEINBECK, John
New York: Viking Press, 1958. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in price-clipped near fine dustwrapper with slight scrapes at the foot of the spine. Dispatches from Steinbeck's war journalism.
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NZ$509.82
Of Mice And Men
by John Steinbeck
Pan Books, 1974. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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NZ$10.18
Travels with Charley in Search of America
by Steinbeck, John
New York.: Bantam Books by arr. w/ Viking., 1966. 20th printing since 1963 first Bantam.1962 1st Viking.. Mass-market paperback. Good. Lower corner creasing, front, back. Cover small price sticker scar. Well-bound.. Namuth, Hans (Back cover B&W photo of author by, courtesy of Holiday Magazine). 1 Mass-market paperback. Glued binding. Bantam S2581. Audience: General/trade. In 1960, near age 60, Nobel author John Steinbeck set out in his pick-up truck mounted with a camper to travel the length and...
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NZ$10.20
The Pearl
by Steinbeck, John
Penguin Books, 2000. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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NZ$10.18
The Mindful Therapist: A Clinician's Guide to Mindsight and Neural Integration
by Daniel J. Siegel
W. W. Norton & Company, 2010. Hard cover. Very good/Very good. Excellent condition inside, clean and unmarked aside from inscription by previous owner. Very light wear along top edge of jacket.
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NZ$42.48
Steinbeck
by Steinbeck, John / Steinbeck, Elaine & Wallsten, Robert - editors
First Edition, First Printing. Very Good in a Fair dustjacket. Black cloth with silver title on front cover. A large, heavy volume with solid binding, square and with minimal wear. The interior is clean and without markings of any kind. The uclipped dustjacket has the original $15.00 price, chipping and wear at extremities and a one-inch open tear on the back. Protected in a mylar cover. Carefully packaged and shipped in a box.
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NZ$64.58NZ$51.66
The Moon Is Down
by STEINBECK, John
New York: The Viking Press, 1942. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first issue, with no mention of the printer on the copyright page and a large period between "talk" and "this" on p.112, line 11. A near fine copy with light fading on the spine, light rubbing at the spine ends,and ink owner's name neatly penned on front fly with "John Steinbeck" written underneath (a signature that is absolutely not by the author) in a near fine price-clipped dustwrapper with some light rubbing at the...
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Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
The Sun Dial Press, 1939. Hardcover. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Some wear to the edges of the brown covers and spine. Name and scribbling on the front endpaper. Some stains to page edges; a solid reading copy of an early edition. No jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 183211. .
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NZ$50.98
The Forgotten Village
by STEINBECK, John
New York: The Viking Press, 1941. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Small quarto. Original natural linen with green pictorial stamping on front board and letters on spine. Illustrated with 136 black and white photographs from the film. A trifle cocked else fine in very slightly age-toned and rubbed dustwrapper with the lettering a little out of register. A nicer than usual copy.
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NZ$382.36
THE LONG VALLEY
by Steinbeck, John
New York: The Viking Press, 1938. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 303pp.; VG-/G+; spine pictorial tan with black, green, and white lettering; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut '$2.50'; dust jacket has some mild chipping to the head and tail of spine, corners, mild darkening to spine, chipping to edges; name written on ffep; small stamp on rear endpaper; mild age-toning to pages; gutter slightly open on pages 160/161; FIRST PUBLISHED IN SEPTEMBER 1938 is stated on...
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The Grapes of Wrath
by Steinbeck, John
Viking Books, 1989. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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NZ$12.18
East of Eden
by Steinbeck, John
Mass Market Paperback. Publisher: Penguin USA | 2016 | Mass Market Paperback | 601 p. | This book is brand new. | Language: Engelska --- Information regarding the book: In his journal, Nobel Prize winner 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...
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NZ$54.11
THE GRAPES OF WRATH
by Steinbeck, John
New York: The Viking Press / Compass Books, 1959. Wraps. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Edition of the paperback edition, fourth printing. A Good copy. 8vo., 619pp. Illustrated wrappers, with $1.95 in the lower corner. Light soiling to the wrappers. The Inside wraps and the text block edges are foxed. Still, a Good copy. *** Number 33 in the Publisher's series. ***.
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NZ$30.59
The Moon is Down
by John Steinbeck
The Moon is Down, John Steinbeck. Published by Viking, New York, 1942. First Edition "First Published in March 1942", second state with printing corrections. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 188 pp. Blind-stamped blue cloth boards with silver spine titles, top edge stained blue (faded). Faint stamped name to outer tail edge and light toning; otherwise contents are fine without tears, folds or marks. Binding is tight and boards are fine with a slight spine slant. Dust jacket is in very good condition with tiny tears...
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NZ$37.28
THE WAYWARD BUS
by Steinbeck, John
New York: The Viking Press, 1947. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 312 pages. In Very Good minus condition with Good minus dust jacket. Multi-colored pictorial spine with yellow and blue text. Dust jacket has head edge of spine chipped off, tearing to tail edge of spine, chipping to corners, slight sunning to spine, and moderate wear to joints. Boards have mild edgewear. Textblock has light age toning to endpapers and pastedowns. "Published by The Viking Press In February 1947" on...
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NZ$169.94
The Pastures of Heaven
by STEINBECK, John
New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1932. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Probably a former private lending library copy with label on rear pastedown, and paper remnant of front pastedown, else very good lacking the dustwrapper.
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NZ$2,549.10
THE GRAPES OF WRATH
by Steinbeck, John
New York: The Viking Press, 1939. First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 619 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Good plus dust jacket. Spine multi-color with black and white lettering. Dust jacket protected in mylar covering, with price uncut: "$2.75". Mild shelfwear. Creasing and chipping along edges of dust jacket. Open tear to head of spine. Tanning to paste downs. Foxing to edges of textblock. Interior pages clean. Top edge of textblock dyed blue. Some staining to bottom edge of...
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The Winter of Our Discontent
by STEINBECK, John
New York: Viking, 1961. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Limited edition, one of 500 copies. Fine, lacking the dustwrapper and printed acetate overjacket. However, and although not called for, this copy is Inscribed: "For Oliver H. Clark from John Steinbeck." Scarce thus.
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NZ$11,046.10
The Red Pony; Illustrated Edition
by Steinbeck, John
New York.: The Viking Press., 1945. 1st illustrated edition. Same date, title and copyright pages.. Hard cover. Fine. No dust jacket. Blemished only by front lower 3/4-inch light stain near edge.. Dennis, Wesley (Illustrations by).. 1 First edition. Tan cloth over boards, forest green border lines, front; green long spine title box, gold titles. 131 p. 25 cm. Watercolor Illustrations, reproduced by 4-color lithography, plates. Paste-on front color plate, pony, 3x4 in. Running horses end papers. John...
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Of Mice and Men
by Steinbeck, John
Mass Market Paperback. Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd. | 2006 | Mass Market Paperback | 120 p. | This book is brand new. | Series: Penguin Red Classics | Language: Engelska --- Information regarding the book: Streetwise George and his big, childlike friend Lennie are drifters, searching for work in the fields and valleys of California. They have nothing except the clothes on their back, and a hope that one day they'll find a place of their own and live the American dream. But dreams come at a price....
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The Red Pony: John Steinbeck (The Originals)
by Steinbeck, Mr John
Paperback. Very Good.
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NZ$3.68
