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Travels With Charley (1962)
In Search of America
by John Steinbeck
With his dog Charley, John Steinbeck set out in his truck to explore and experience America in the 1960s. (learn more about this book)
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The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)
by John Steinbeck
Steinbeck's last novel, The Winter of Our Discontent focuses on the theme of success and what motivates men towards it. Reflecting back on his New England family's past fortune, and his father's loss of the family wealth, the protagonist, Ethan Allen Hawley, characterizes success in every era and... (learn more about this book)
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The Winter of Our Discontent / The Agony and the Ecstasy / The Making of the President, 1960 / "A Lodging for the Emperor" / Goodbye Mr. Chips (1961)
Reader's Digest Condensed Books, Summer 1961
by John Steinbeck, Irving Stone, Oliver Statler, James Hilton, Theodore H. White
Volume 46 - Summer 1961
The Winter of Our Discontent - John Steinbeck
The Agony and the Ecstasy - Irving Stone
The Making of the President, 1960 - Theodore H. White
"A Lodging for the Emperor" (Japanese Inn) - Oliver Statler
Goodbye, Mr. Chips - James Hilton (learn more about this book)
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Once There Was a War (1958)
by John Steinbeck
Set in England, Africa and Italy this collection of Steinbeck's World War II news correspondence was written for the "New York Herald Tribune" in the latter part of 1943. (learn more about this book)
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The Short Reign of Pippin IV (1957)
A Fabrication
by John Steinbeck
Steinbeck's only work of political satire turns the French Revolution on its head, as amateur astronomer Pippin Heristal is drafted in to rule the unruly French. Enchanting comedy ensues as Steinbeck creates the most hilarious royal court ever around the brief, bold reign of the corduroy-clad... (learn more about this book)
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Sweet Thursday (1954)
by John Steinbeck
In Monterey, on the California Coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday, which is one of those days that's just naturally bad. Returning to the scene of Cannery Row, the weedy lots, junk heaps and flop houses of Monterey, Steinbeck once again brings to life the... (learn more about this book)
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The Short Novels of John Steinbeck (1953)
by John Steinbeck
Collected here for the first time in a deluxe paperback volume are six of John Steinbeck’s most widely read and beloved 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... (learn more about this book)
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Black Widow / Silent World / East of Eden / Karen / Curve & Tusk (1953)
Readers Digest Condensed Books, Spring 1953
by Jacques Yves Cousteau, John Steinbeck, Marie Killilea, Stuart Cloete, Patrick Quentin, Frederic Dumas
Volume 13 - Spring 1953
Black Widow - Patrick Quentin
The Silent World - J.Y. Cousteau & Frederic Dumas
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
Karen - Marie Killilea
The Curve and the Tusk - Stuart Cloete (learn more about this book)
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East of Eden (1952)
by John Steinbeck
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. (learn more about this book)
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The Log from the Sea of Cortez (1951)
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 published as black-spine Penguin Classics for the first time and will feature eye-catching, newly commissioned art. ... (learn more about this book)
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