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A tale of two men on a journey to find a home. They go through a lot together with a dream that they must accomplish and on their way to achieving that dream they find some nice friends that don't take them for granted. Steinbeck also wrote a playscript of the story, which won the New York... (learn more about this book)
Forced from their home, the Joad family is lured to California to find work; instead they find disillusionment, exploitation, and hunger.
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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.
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A poor fisherman finds the Pearl of the World. However, things go terribly wrong when greed and paranoia rear their ugly heads.
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With his dog Charley, John Steinbeck set out in his truck to explore and experience America in the 1960s.
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Tells a story of a young boy and life on his father's California ranch, raising a sorrel colt.
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"This is the story of Danny and of Danny's friends and of Danny's house. It is a story of how these three became one thing." Danny returns from the Great War to inherit two houses in the shabby district of Tortilla Flat. He falls in with a group of poor paisanos. Together, they gossip, talk... (learn more about this book)
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... (learn more about this book)
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)