The Grapes of Wrath tells the story of the Joad family, in particular Tom Joad, of Oklahoma and how the Dust Bowl of the 30s sees the family move West. The great promise of California - as shown in the handbills distributed - eludes the family and the journey is relentless and wears the family d...
I read this and Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man" back-to-back and had very similar opinions about both books (though I ultimately enjoyed Invisible Man a bit more). Replace "migrant" with "immigrant" or "Okie" with "Mexican" (or some other pejorative) and this book could have been written this yea...
The book of the pearl had many symbolism in it. The pearl mostly had about the pearl of coarse, oysters, and Kino&JuanaThe Pearl represented the earth's riches, it is beautiful on the outside and everything seems like it is going well, but if you look deeper you can really tell that everything is...
loved tortilla flat and cannery row, both days in the lives of the monterrey underclass, where the preferred unit of measure of wine is the gallon, and money is only procured as needed by cutting squids for the chinaman. the moon is down is something petraeus and the rest of the pentagon war-boys...
Of Mice and Men: I am my brother's keeper"In every bit of honest writing in the world there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love. There are shorter means, many o...
John Steinbeck conceived East of Eden as a gift to his two young sons - Thomas and John. I am choosing to write this book to my sons, he wrote to his friend and editor, Pascal Covici, They are little boys now and they will never know what they came from through me, unless I tell them. It is not w...
Quando fu salita nel bagno, misi il biglietto in tasca. E ancora non sapevo. Accade mai che uno conosca più della scorza esterna del suo prossimo? “Come sei Mary, dentro? Mi senti, Mary?..Come sei, dentro?”Ho procrastinato a lungo l’incontro con Steinbeck per una questione di suoni: s-t-e-i-n-b-e...
This: Doc was collecting marine animals in the Great Tide Pool on the tip of the Peninsula. It is a fabulous place: when the tide is in, a wave-churned basin, creamy with foam, whipped by the combers that roll in from the whistling buoy on the reef. But when the tide goes out the little water wo...
Once there was…Es war einmal…C’era una volta una guerra, che suona più o meno come “c’era una volta un califfo per un un’ora”. Il titolo è volutamente provocatorio. John Steinbeck, scrittore americano versatile e fecondo, si è cimentato con un evento drammatico, la guerra, vissuta in prima person...
Thy life is not thine own to govern, Danny, for it controls other lives. See how thy friends suffer! Spring to life, Danny, that thy friends may live again!Steinbeck obviously models his tale of Danny and his comrades in Tortilla Flat after Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory. He never hid his...
Do you ever catch yourself smiling like an idiot when you're reading something pleasurable? Well, my smile muscles hurt. The log begins with an introduction Steinbeck wrote, "About Ed Ricketts," after his travel companion from the journey chronicled here died. It's gorgeous! What an fascinating m...
Eight years before a lifelong smoking habit finally killed his heart, John Steinbeck embarked on one last road trip across the United States. Steinbeck desired to see the country he described all his life with his own eyes - "to look again, rediscover this monster land", become reacquainted with ...
Propaganda is a word often spewed in anger or indignation at some form of manipulative or self-serving communication. It’s generally viewed as objectionable, ugly, and immoral. Meet the honorable, dignified exception to that stereotype.John Steinbeck’s 1942 novel, written to support the Allied ef...
Nobel Prize winning John Steinbeck and his photographer friend visit Moscow, the Ukraine, (what was then) Stalingrad, and Georgia in 1947. They stick to their mission which is to find out about everyday people: “What do people wear there? What do they serve for dinner? Do they have parties? ….” ...
Цялото ревю е в "Аз чета"Една земя – величествена, плодородна, твоя.Една заблуда – че можеш да управляваш природата, че можеш да подчиниш събитията, че си господар и бог…че си недосегаем.Трагедия, разтърсваща съзнанието. Красиво тъжна история за света, който мислим, че създаваме, а всъщност няма...
I found this a very interesting read. I think that all authors, would-be-authors, and readers wondering about the process of creating a novel, would agree with me. Note: Some parts of Steinbeck’s journal entries are slightly repetitious, but each entry is short enough that I found it easy, and no...
Now I’m reading The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights by John Steinbeck, which is sort of a retelling of Thomas Malory’s Morte d’Arthur. Steinbeck is SUCH a Malory fanboy, it’s absolutely adorable. Somehow I’ve never read much at all of Steinbeck–a terrible oversight in my education, cl...
Writing novels about the poor and dispossessed in 1930s California and in the process attracting the wrath of farmers’ organisations and the attention of the FBI gave John Steinbeck a reputation which has persisted to this day. Many people assume that he was a communist, or at the very least a so...
My favorite present was when I was 15 or 16. A Christmas. There were clothes and things. But my brother wrapped two paperback books for me: The Catcher in the Rye and The Grapes of Wrath. Two days later I was an addict.I was also a completist. Down went the other Salingers quickly. And Stei...
John SteinbeckThe Long ValleyBook-of-the-Month Club, Hardback, 1995. 8vo. 303 pp. First published, 1938.Contents*The Chrysanthemums [October 1937, Harper’s Magazine]The White Quail [March 1935, North American Review]FlightThe Snake [June 22, 1935, Monterey Beacon]Breakfast [November 9, 1936, Paci...
Questo è Henry Morgan secondo un'incisione del XVIII. Questo è Henry Morgan secondo Il cigno nero di Henry King.(troppi Henry!)Questo è Henry Morgan secondo Morgan, the pirate di André De Toth. E insomma, ce ne sono tanti altri, questa qui non è una rappresentazione visiva di tutti i Morgan del p...
This is a collection of stories about morons. What i mean by that, is that everyone is engagingly simple, "good country people," and their amusement and fear is what makes this story tick. They are all good farmers, moral people without having the dredge of scripted morality, and finally adept ...
the short reign of pippin iv: a fabrication, 1957, john steinbeck...1028 ratings, 70 reviews, paperback, 131 pages, penguin classics, dedicated:to my sister estherw/an introduction by robert morsberger and katharine morsberger, their notes, works consulted list...the morsbergers are a part of tha...