East of Eden

by Steinbeck, John; Wyatt, David

• ISBN13: 9780140186390
• ISBN10: 0140186395
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780593513439
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780140049978, 9780140058291, 9780670002788
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-10-01
• Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Summary

Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America’s greatest writers and cultural figures. We have begun publishing his many works for the first time as blackspine Penguin Classics featuring eye-catching, newly commissioned art. This season we continue with the seven spectacular and influential books East of Eden, Cannery Row, In Dubious Battle, The Long Valley, The Moon Is Down, The Pastures of Heaven, and Tortilla Flat. Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readers—and to the many who revisit them again and again.

Author Biography

JOHN STEINBECK (1902-û1968) was born in Salinas, California. He worked as a laborer and a journalist, and in 1935, when he published Tortilla Flat, he achieved popular success and financial security. Steinbeck wrote more than twenty-five novels and won the Nobel Prize in 1962. Nearly all of his books are available in Penguin Classics.