Zapata, Steinbeck John

Автор: Steinbeck John
Название: Novels and Stories
ISBN: 1883011019 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781883011017
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 21460.00 T
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Описание: John Steinbeck, from the very start of his career, evoked the landscape and people of central California with lyrical intensity and unflinching frankness. The Library of America presents for the first time in one volume Steinbeck's early writings, which expressed his abiding concerns for community, social justice, and the elemental connection between nature and human society. In prose that blends the vernacular and the incantatory, the local and the mythic, these five works chart Steinbeck's evolution into one of the greatest and most enduring popular of American novelists.

The Pastures of Heaven (1932), a collection of interrelated stories, delineates the troubled inner lives and sometimes disastrous fates of families living in a seemingly tranquil California valley. The surface realism of Steinbeck's first mature work is enriched by hints of uncanny forces at work beneath.

"Deep down it's mine, right to the center of the world," says Salinas Valley farmer Joseph Wayne about his land in John Steinbeck's To a God Unknown (1933). A sense of primeval magic dominates the novel as the farmer reverts to pagan nature worship and begins a tortuous journey toward catastrophe and ultimate understanding.

Steinbeck's sympathetic depiction of the raffish paisons of Tortilla Flat (1935), a ramshackle district above Monterey, first won him popular attention. The Flat's tenderhearted, resourceful, mildly corrupt, over-optimistic characters are a triumph of life-affirming humor.

In Dubious Battle (1936) plunges into the political struggle of the 1930s and paints a vigorous fresco of a migrant fruit-pickers' strike. Anticipating the collective portraiture of The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck poignantly traces the surges and shifts of group behavior.

With Of Mice and Men (1937), Steinbeck secured his status as one of the most influential American writers. Lennie and George, itinerant farmhands held together in the face of deprivation only by the frailest of dreams, have long since passed into American mythology. This novel, which Steinbeck called "such a simple little thing," is now recognized as a masterpiece of concentrated emotional power.

Автор: Steinbeck John
Название: Cannery row
ISBN: 0241980380 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241980385
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 8730.00 T
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Описание: Meet the gamblers, whores, drunks, bums and artists of Cannery Row in Monterey, California, during the Great Depression. They want to throw a party for their friend Doc, so Mack and the boys set about, in their own inimitable way, recruiting everyone in the neighbourhood to the cause. But along the way they can't help but get involved in a little mischief and misadventure. It wouldn't be Cannery Row if it was otherwise, now would it? This edition features a stunning new cover by renowned artist Bijou Karman.

Автор: Steinbeck John
Название: The Vigilante
ISBN: 0241338956 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241338957
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 2930.00 T
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Описание: One of fifty new books at 1.00 pound each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry - all complete, standalone works, some never published in Penguin Modern Classics before.

Автор: Steinbeck John
Название: The Wayward Bus
ISBN: 0141186119 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141186115
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 12700.00 T
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Описание: The Wayward Bus travels through the backroads of the lush California countryside, transporting the lost and the lonely to new destinations. Juan Chicoy is at the wheel, a man of the land, hot-blooded and uninhibited.

Автор: Steinbeck John
Название: The Pearl
ISBN: 0241980364 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241980361
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 7680.00 T
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Описание: 'In the town they tell the story of the great pearl - how it was found and how it was lost again. They tell of Kino, the fisherman, and of his wife, Juana, and of the baby, Coyotito. And because the story has been told so often, it has taken root in every man's mind.'The Pearl is Steinbeck's heartbreaking short parable about wealth and the darkness and evil it can instill in even the most generous of men's hearts.

This edition features a stunning new cover by renowned artist Bijou Karman.

Автор: Steinbeck John
Название: The Red Pony
ISBN: 0140188649 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140188646
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Цена: 3070.00 T
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Автор: Steinbeck John
Название: The Pearl
ISBN: 0140188630 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140188639
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Цена: 3070.00 T
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Автор: Steinbeck John
Название: Grapes of Wrath and Other Writings 1936-1941
ISBN: 1883011159 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781883011154
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 24520.00 T
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Описание: Short stories and a novel are accompanied by nonfiction works dealing with a marine biological expedition and migrant farm workers.

Автор: Steinbeck John
Название: Grapes of wrath
ISBN: 0241980348 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241980347
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 8640.00 T
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Описание: 'To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.'Drought and economic depression are driving thousands from Oklahoma. As their land becomes just another strip in the dust bowl, the Joads, a family of sharecroppers, decide they have no choice but to follow. They head west, towards California, where they hope to find work and a future for their family.

But while the journey to this promised land will take its inevitable toll, there remains uncertainty about what awaits their arrival . . .

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Grapes of Wrath is an epic human drama, with a stunning new cover by renowned artist Bijou Karman.

Автор: Steinbeck John
Название: The Grapes of Wrath
ISBN: 0141185066 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141185064
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 8790.00 T
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Описание: A story of Joad family, who are forced to travel west from Dust Bowl era Oklahoma in search of the promised land of California.

Автор: Steinbeck John
Название: Of Mice and Men
ISBN: 0141023570 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141023571
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 7910.00 T
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Описание: Drifters in search of work, George and his childlike friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except the clothes on their back - and a dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventually they find work on a ranch in California`s Salinas Valley, but their hopes are dashed as Lennie - struggling against extreme cruelty, and more.

Автор: Steinbeck John
Название: Of mice and men
ISBN: 024198033X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241980330
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 7910.00 T
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Описание: 'Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place.'George and his large, simple-minded friend Lennie are drifters, following wherever work leads them.

Arriving in California's Salinas Valley, they get work on a ranch. If they can just stay out of trouble, George promises Lennie, then one day they might be able to get some land of their own and settle down some place. But kind-hearted, childlike Lennie is a victim of his own strength.

Seen by others as a threat, he finds it impossible to control his emotions. And one day not even George will be able to save him from trouble. Of Mice and Men is a tragic and moving story of friendship, loneliness and the dispossessed, with a stunning new cover by renowned artist Bijou Karman.

Автор: Steinbeck John
Название: The Winter of Our Discontent
ISBN: 0141186313 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141186313
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 8790.00 T
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Описание: Ethan Allen Hawley has lost the acquisitive spirit of his wealthy forebears, a long line of proud New England sea captains and Pilgrims. Scarred by failure, Ethan works as a grocery clerk in a store his family once owned. But his wife is restless and his teenage children troubled and hungry for the material comforts he cannot provide.

Автор: Steinbeck John
Название: Red pony
ISBN: 0241980372 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241980378
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 7910.00 T
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Описание: 'A little masterpiece' New York TimesJody Tiflin is a ten-year-old boy, living on his father's ranch. One day his father brings home a small pony. He's Jody's, if the boy will learn to feed, clean, stable and care for him.

But Jody learns, through the colt, and through his other adventures on the ranch, that with responsibility can come sacrifice and pain. Joy may swiftly turn to tragedy. And he also discover that the simplicities of childhood must eventually turn into the complications of adulthood.

The Red Pony is Steinbeck's brilliant, and sometimes brutal, celebration of adolescence, with a stunning new cover by renowned artist Bijou Karman.

Автор: Steinbeck John
Название: Of Mice and Men HB mini
ISBN: 0241620236 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241620236
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 8790.00 T
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Описание: Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil.

Drifters in search of work, George and his childlike friend Lennie have nothing in the world except the clothes on their back - and a dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventually they find work on a ranch in California's Salinas Valley, but their hopes are dashed as Lennie becomes a victim of his own strength. Tackling universal themes of friendship and shared vision, and giving a voice to America's lonely and dispossessed, Of Mice and Men remains Steinbeck's most popular work, achieving success as a novel, Broadway play and three acclaimed films.

'Such a perfect book' - Nick Hornby