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Steinbeck: Novels, 1942-1952 (collective work) (edit title/settings)

The Moon Is Down / Cannery Row / The Pearl / East of Eden

by John Steinbeck (Author) (edit contributors)

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This third volume in The Library of America's authoritative edition of John Steinbeck's writings shows one of America's most enduring popular writers continuing restlessly to explore new subject matter and new approaches to storytelling. The Moon Is Down (1942), set in an unnamed... read more

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  1. Cannery Row

    by John Steinbeck (Author)

    This is a book which ventures into the life of the community of Cannery Row, Monterey, California, around the time of the collapse of the local canning industry in the years before World War II. The group includes Doc, a marine biologist and...

  2. The Pearl

    by John Steinbeck (Author)

    A poor fisherman finds the Pearl of the World. However, things go terribly wrong when greed and paranoia rear their ugly heads.

  3. East of Eden

    by John Steinbeck (Author)

    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...

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BY TEN-FORTY-FIVE it was all over.

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This book is in Library of America. (edition-based publisher list)

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  1. John Steinbeck (Author)

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