This marvelous collection features stories from some of America's finest and most respected writers about one of the world's most solitary and satisfying sports: fly fishing. For the first time, the stories of 24 acclaimed writers including Kim Barnes, Walter Bennett, Russell Chatham, Guy de la Vald[...]
The novelist records his thoughts, feelings, and experiences during the writing of The grapes of wrath, in this diary of those years[...]
Set in familiar Steinbeck territory, To a God Unknown is a mystical tale, exploring one man's attempt to control the forces of nature and, ultimately, to understand the ways of God.[...]
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.The G[...]
In Monterey, on the California coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday, which is one of those days that are just naturally bad. Returning to the scene of "Cannery Row"--the weedy lots and junk heaps and flophouses of Monterey, John Steinbeck once more brings to life the[...]
A final installment of a four-part collection of the classic American writer's works features his later novels, including The Wayward Bus, Burning Bright, Sweet Thursday, and The Winter of Our Discontent, in a volume that is complemented by his final published account, Travels with Charley.[...]
For the first time in one volume, the early California writings of one of America's greatest novelists have been collected, including the seminal works, Tortilla Flat and Of Mice and Men, tracing his early growth and evolution. 20,000 first printing.[...]
A compilation containing a newly edited version of Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, is accompanied by The Harvest Gypsies, a 1936 report on migrant workers; The Long Valley, a collection of short stories; and The Log from the Sea of Cortez.[...]
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 Scandinavian co[...]