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Steinbeck's first posthumously published work, The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights is a reinterpretation of tales from Malory's Morte d'Arthur. In this highly successful attempt to render Malory into Modern English, Steinbeck recreated the rhythm and tone of the original Middle English.

Published in 1945, Cannery Row focuses on the acceptance of life as it is: both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual. Drawing on his memories of the real inhabitants of Monterey, California, Steinbeck interweaves the stories of Doc, Henri, Mack and his boys, and the other characters in this world where only the fittest survive, to create a novel that is at once one of his most humorous and most poignant works.

Erstmals im Hörspiel: Der spannende Roman des Nobelpreisträgers, bekannt durch die berühmte Verfilmung mit James Dean. Es ist die Geschichte zweier ungleicher Brüder, die um die Liebe des Vaters buhlen und derselben Frau ins Netz gehen. Wir lauschen den Kämpfen des Adam Trask, hören vom Verrat seines Brudes Charles und seiner Frau Cathy, schlüpfen in die Köpfe der Söhne Caleb und Aron und fiebern am Totenbett der Versöhnung entgegen. Über 40 namhafte Schauspieler und Schauspielerinnen und meisterhafte Soundcollagen entführen uns ins Amerika des Wilden Westens bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg.

Steinbeck and Capa's account of their journey through Cold War Russia is a classic piece of reportage and travel writing.Just after the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe, Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune.

Taugenichtse und Sonderlinge, Dirnen und Gelegenheitsarbeiter sammeln sich in der Straße der Ölsardinen im Fischerstädtchen Monterey in Kalifornien. Da sind Lee Chong, der geschäftstüchtige Ladenbesitzer, die leichten Mädchen von Doras Etablissement, Mac und seine vier Freunde, die arbeitslos, aber arbeitswillig sind. Und schließlich der Meeresbiologe Doc, der in seinem Labor experimentiert, Unmengen Bier trinkt und Schallplatten hört.

Danny is a paisano, descended from the original Spanish settlers who arrived in Monterey, California, centuries before. He values friendship above money and possessions, so when he suddenly inherits two houses, Danny is quick to offer shelter to his fellow gentlemen of the road. Together, their love of freedom and scorn for material things draws them into daring and often hilarious adventures. That is, until Danny, tiring of his new responsibilities, suddenly disappears.

Each working day from January 29 to November 1, 1951, John Steinbeck warmed up to the work of writing East of Eden with a letter to the late Pascal Covici, his friend and editor at The Viking Press. It was his way, he said, of "getting my mental arm in shape to pitch a good game". Part autobiography, part writer's workshop, these letters offer an illuminating perspective on Steinbeck's creative process, and a fascinating glimpse of Steinbeck, the private man.

A collection of newspaper articles about Dust Bowl migrants in California’s Central Valley by the author of The Grapes of Wrath. 

The novelist who wrote The Grapes of Wrath and the director who produced Crisis and Lights Out in Europe combined their superb talents to tell the story of the coming of modern medicine to the natives of Mexico. There have been several notable examples of this pen-camera method of narration, but The Forgotten Village is unique among them in that the text was written before a single picture was shot.

I Mexico, i nærheten av Mexicogolfen, lever perlefiskeren Kino en fattig, men forholdsvis lykkelig tilværelse sammen med konen Juana og den vesle sønnen deres Coyotito. En skjebnesvanger dag blir Coyotito stukket av en skorpion, og foreldrene hans tar ham med til byen slik at han kan bli undersøkt av en lege. Legen lar dem i klare vendinger få vite at behandlingen hans ikke er gratis og at det egentlig er under hans verdighet å behandle et indianerbarn. Samme dag finner Kino en kjempestor og kostbar perle som vekker håp om økonomisk trygghet.

Just after the iron curtain fell on Eastern Europe, John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune. This rare opportunity took the famous travellers not only to Moscow and Stalingrad - now Volgograd - but through the countryside of the Ukraine and the Caucasus. A Russian Journal is the distillation of their journey and remains a remarkable memoir and unique historical document.

Based on the epic novel by Nobel Laureate John Steinbeck. Set during the Great Depression, tells the powerful story of the Joad family’s trek from the dust bowl of Oklahoma to the promise of a new life in California. But what they find threatens to rip apart their lives, and sever the ties that bind them together.

Set against the backdrop of America's Great Depression and Dust Bowl, a family of farmers from Oklahoma head west in search of work, only to discover thousands like them are also on the move. Following a violent altercation with some locals, they head back on the road with their dream of a promised land in tatters. And life is set to get much worse for the Joads....

A Penguin Classic. First published in 1938, this volume of stories collected with the encouragement of his longtime editor Pascal Covici serves as a wonderful introduction to the work of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck. Set in the beautiful Salinas Valley of California, where simple people farm the land and struggle to find a place for themselves in the world, these stories reflect Steinbeck’s characteristic interests: The tensions between town and country, laborers and owners, past and present.

This 1936 novel—set in the California apple country—portrays a strike by migrant workers that metamorphoses from principled defiance into blind fanaticism.

In 1943 John Steinbeck was on assignment for The New York Herald Tribune, writing from Italy and North Africa, and from England in the midst of the London blitz. In his dispatches he focuses on the human-scale effect of the war, portraying everyone from the guys in a bomber crew to Bob Hope on his USO tour and even fighting alongside soldiers behind enemy lines. Taken together, these writings create an indelible portrait of life in wartime.

Der Weg in eine vielversprechende Zukunft. In die von Staubstürmen und Missernten bedrohte Landschaft von Oklahoma dringt Anfang der 1930er-Jahre die Nachricht vom Reichtum Kaliforniens. Die Depression und die neuen Agrartechniken haben Tausenden von Landarbeitern und Farmpächtern den wirtschaftlichen Zusammenbruch gebracht. Sie machen sich mit ihren Familien auf den Weg, um durch die Arbeit in den kalifornischen Obstplantagen eine neue Existenzgrundlage zu finden.

John Ernst Steinbeck (February 27, 1902 - December 20, 1968), born in Salinas, CA, was an American writer who won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception."

A její obyvatelé? To jsou hráči, děvky, umělci, prosťáčci i okouzlující pobudové. Zápletka prvního poválečného románu držitele Nobelovy ceny za literaturu, Johna Steinbecka, se točí kolem snahy povaleče Macka a jeho přátel překvapit všemi oblíbeného mořského biologa Doktora večírkem na jeho počest. Protože jsou ovšem bez peněz, musí si na ten tajný mejdan vydělat. A kdo jiný by jim mohl dát práci než právě Doktor. Naneštěstí se celá akce vymkne kontrole a je při ní zničen dům i vzácný gramofon jejich dobrodince.

"Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat." This compelling, dignified and moving novel was inspired by and based upon the Nazi invasion of neutral Norway. Set in an imaginary European mining town, it shows what happens when a ruthless totalitarian power is up against an occupied democracy with an overwhelming desire to be free.