John Steinbeck
1) Cannery row
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Series
Language
English
Description
Recounts the adventures and misadventures of cannery workers living in the run-down waterfront section of Monterey, California.
2) The pearl
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1986, c1945
Physical Desc
90 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In this short book illuminated by a deep understanding and love of humanity, John Steinbeck retells an old Mexican folk tale: the story of the great pearl, how it was found, and how it was lost. For the diver Kino, finding a magnificent pearl means the promise of a better life for his impoverished family. His dream blinds him to the greed and suspicions the pearl arouses in him and his neighbors, and even his loving wife cannot temper his obsession...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In September 1960, at age fifty-eight, the author and his poodle, Charley, and riding in a three-quarter ton pickup truck named Rocinante, embarked on a journey across America. This chronicle of their trip through almost 40 states, meanders from small towns to growing cities to glorious wilderness oases. Providing an intimate look at one of America's most beloved writers in the later years of his life, this is a self-portrait of a man who never wrote...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1986, c1947
Physical Desc
306 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
An imaginative and unsentimental chronicle of a bus traveling California's back roads, transporting the lost and the lonely, the good and the greedy, the stupid and the scheming, the beautiful and the vicious -- away from their shattered dreams and, possibly, toward the promise of the future"--Cover.
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Series
Library of America volume 72
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
1994
Physical Desc
909 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Steinbeck here joins the Library of America's elite class of writers. This first collection in a planned series of Steinbeck titles includes The Paradise of Heaven, To a God Unknown, Tortilla Flat, In Dubious Battle, and Of Mice and Men. The volume also includes textual notes by scholar Robert DeMott and a chronology of the author's life.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
xxvii, 288 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
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...
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Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (459 min.) : sound, color and black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rebel without a cause (1955): The adolescent son of a well-to-do family gets into trouble with other kids and the police.
East of Eden (1955): A wayward Salinas Valley youth vies for the affection of his hardened father with his favored brother.
Cat on a hot tin roof (1958): A drama of the problems of a wealthy but decadent family in the South.
A streetcar named Desire (1951): Set in the steamy squalor of New Orleans, the story of a neurotic woman's...