| The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers.First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their... Today's Bargain Price: $12.99 Categories: All Historical Fiction | | |
| East of Eden by John Steinbeck A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America’s most enduring authors, in a commemorative hardcover edition In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas... Today's Bargain Price: $13.99 Categories: Unknown | | |
| The Pearl (Penguin Modern Classics) New Ed Edition by John Steinbeck Product DescriptionTHE PEARL is Steinbeck's flawless parable about wealth and the evil it can bring. When Kino, an Indian pearl-diver, finds 'the Pearl of the world' he believes that his life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana in church and their little boy, Coyotito, will be able to attend school. Obsessed by his dreams... Today's Bargain Price: $3.00 Categories: All Nonfiction | | |
| Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck A controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great DepressionA Penguin Classic Over seventy-five years since its first publication, Steinbeck’s tale of commitment, loneliness, hope, and loss remains one of America’s most widely read and taught novels. An unlikely pair, George and Lennie, two migrant workers in California... Today's Bargain Price: $10.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
| The Pearl (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by John Steinbeck “There it lay, the great pearl, perfect as the moon.” Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf beds that once brought great wealth to the Kings of Spain and now provide Kino, Juana, and their infant son with meager subsistence. Then, on a day like any other, Kino emerges from the... Today's Bargain Price: $10.99 Categories: All Teen Lit | | |
| Tortilla Flat (Penguin Twentieth-century Classics) by John Steinbeck Adopting the structure and themes of the Arthurian legend, John Steinbeck created a “Camelot” on a shabby hillside above the town of Monterey, California, and peopled it with a colorful band of knights. At the center of the tale is Danny, whose house, like Arthur’s castle, becomes a gathering place for men looking for adventure... Today's Bargain Price: $10.99 Categories: All Historical Fiction | | |
| The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by John Steinbeck A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of Steinbeck's brilliant short novelsCollected here for the first time in a deluxe paperback volume are six of John Steinbeck's most widely read and beloved novels. From the tale of commitment, loneliness and hope in Of Mice and Men, to the tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society... Today's Bargain Price: $7.99 Categories: Unknown | | |
| Sweet Thursday (Penguin Classics) by John Steinbeck A Penguin Classic 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 denizens of a... Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Categories: All Romance | | |
| The Moon Is Down (Twentieth-century Classics) by John Steinbeck Occupied by enemy troops, a small, peaceable town comes face-to-face with evil imposed from the outside—and betrayal born within the close-knit community A Penguin Classic In this masterful tale set in Norway during World War II, Steinbeck explores the effects of invasion on both the conquered and the conquerors. As he delves into... Today's Bargain Price: $10.99 Categories: All Historical Fiction | | |
| The Log from the Sea of Cortez (Penguin Classics) by John Steinbeck A Penguin Classic In the two years after the 1939 publication of Steinbeck’s masterful The Grapes of Wrath , Steinbeck and his novel increasingly became the center of intense controversy and censorship. In search of a respite from the national stage, Steinbeck and his close friend, biologist Ed Ricketts, embarked on a month long... Today's Bargain Price: $13.99 Categories: All Biographies & Memoirs; All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Sports & Outdoors | | |
| The Red Pony (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by John Steinbeck Raised on a ranch in northern California, Jody is well-schooled in the hard work and demands of a rancher's life. He is used to the way of horses, too; but nothing has prepared him for the special connection he will forge with Gabilan, the hot-tempered pony his father gives him. With Billy Buck, the hired hand, Jody tends and trains his... Today's Bargain Price: $5.99 Categories: All Teen Lit | | |
| In Dubious Battle (Penguin Classics) by John Steinbeck A riveting novel of labor strife and apocalyptic violence, now a major motion picture starring James Franco, Bryan Cranston, Selena Gomez, and Zach Braff A Penguin Classic At once a relentlessly fast-paced, admirably observed novel of social unrest and the story of a young man's struggle for identity, In Dubious Battle is set in... Today's Bargain Price: $5.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
| A Russian Journal (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by John Steinbeck Steinbeck and Capa’s account of their journey through Cold War Russia is a classic piece of reportage and travel writing. A Penguin Classic 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... Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Categories: All Biographies & Memoirs | | |
| Steinbeck: A Life in Letters by John Steinbeck "Surely his most interesting, plausibly his most memorable, and . . . arguably his best book" — The New York Times Book Review For John Steinbeck, who hated the telephone, letter-writing was a preparation for work and a natural way for him to communicate his thoughts on people he liked and hated; on marriage, women, and children; on the... Today's Bargain Price: $12.99 Categories: All Biographies & Memoirs | | |
| Once There Was a War (Penguin Classics) by John Steinbeck A Penguin Classic“Age can never dull this kind of writing,” writes the Chicago Tribune of John Steinbeck’s dispatches from World War II, filed for the New York Herald Tribune in 1943, which vividly captured the human side of war. Writing from England in the midst of the London blitz, North Africa, and Italy, Steinbeck focuses on the... Today's Bargain Price: $4.99 Categories: All Biographies & Memoirs; All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; Writing and Publishing | | |
| The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by John Steinbeck Steinbeck's only work of fantasy literature—in a deluxe edition with a foreword by Christopher Paolini, New York Times bestselling author of Eragon , Eldest and Brisingr A Penguin Classic Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur was the first book that John Steinbeck truly enjoyed reading as a child. Fascinated by Arthurian tales of... Today's Bargain Price: $12.99 Categories: All Fantasy; All Historical Fiction | | |
| Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters by John Steinbeck 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." Steinbeck's letters were written on the left-hand pages... Today's Bargain Price: $4.99 Categories: All Biographies & Memoirs | | |
| Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Team (Penguin Classics) by John Steinbeck A magnificent volume of short novels and an essential World War II report from one of America's great twentieth-century writers A Penguin Classic On the heels of the enormous success of his masterwork The Grapes of Wrath and at the height of the American war effort John Steinbeck, one of the most prolific and influential literary... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Categories: All Biographies & Memoirs | | |
| The Long Valley (Twentieth-century Classics) by John Steinbeck A Penguin ClassicFirst 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... Today's Bargain Price: $10.99 Categories: Unknown | | |
| The Portable Steinbeck (Penguin Classics) by John Steinbeck A selection of essential writings by one of the greatest writers in American history It would be impossible to overstate John Steinbeck's enduring influence on American letters. Profuse with a richness of language, sly humor, and empathy for even his most flawed characters, Steinbeck's books are still widely read and deeply relevant... Today's Bargain Price: $4.99 Categories: Unknown | | |
| Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, with Occasional Reference to History (Penguin Classics) by John Steinbeck Steinbeck’s first novel and sole work of historical fiction—the violent, exciting story of the infamous pirate Henry Morgan A Penguin Classic From the mid-1650s through the 1660s, Henry Morgan, a pirate and outlaw of legendary viciousness, ruled the Spanish Main. He ravaged the coasts of Cuba and America, striking terror wherever he... Today's Bargain Price: $4.99 Categories: Unknown | | |
| The Pastures of Heaven (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by John Steinbeck A Penguin Classic In Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck’s beautifully rendered depictions of small yet fateful moments that transform ordinary lives, these twelve early stories introduce both the subject and style of artistic expression that recur in the most important works of his career. Each of these self-contained stories is linked... Today's Bargain Price: $8.99 Categories: Unknown | | |
| To a God Unknown (Penguin Classics) by John Steinbeck A Penguin Classic Ancient pagan beliefs, the great Greek epics, and the Bible all inform this extraordinary novel by Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck, which occupied him for more than five difficult years. While fulfilling his dead father’s dream of creating a prosperous farm in California, Joseph Wayne comes to believe that a... Today's Bargain Price: $10.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
| Of Mice and Men and The Moon Is Down (Penguin Classics) by John Steinbeck Two devastating short novels adapted for the stage by Steinbeck himself A Penguin Classic This Penguin Classics edition celebrates Steinbeck’s dramatic adaptations of his most powerful short novels, Of Mice and Men and The Moon Is Down , featuring a foreword by award-winning actor James Earl Jones. Of Mice and Men... Today's Bargain Price: $10.99 Categories: Unknown | | |
| Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research by John Steinbeck, Edward F. Ricketts The collaboration of two friends—one a novelist, one a marine biologist—produced a volume in which fascinating popular science is woven into a narrative of man’s dreams, his ideals, and his accomplishments through the centuries. Sea of Cortez is one of those rare books that are all things to all readers. Actually the record of a brief... Today's Bargain Price: $12.99 Categories: Unknown | | |
| Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck John Steinbeck wrote The Grapes of Wrath during an astonishing burst of activity between June and October of 1938. Throughout the time he was creating his greatest work, Steinbeck faithfully kept a journal revealing his arduous journey toward its completion.The journal, like the novel it chronicles, tells a tale of dramatic... Today's Bargain Price: $13.99 Categories: All Biographies & Memoirs | | |
| The Short Reign of Pippin IV: A Fabrication by John Steinbeck In his only work of political satire, The Short Reign of Pippin IV , John Steinbeck turns the French Revolution upside down as amateur astronomer Pippin Héristal is drafted to rule the unruly French. Steinbeck creates around the infamous Pippin the most hilarious royal court ever: Pippin’s wife, Queen Marie, who “might have taken her... Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Categories: Unknown | | |
| The Forgotten Village: Life in a Mexican Village by John Steinbeck 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... Today's Bargain Price: $15.99 Categories: All Humor; All Politics, History and Current Events | | |
| The Red Pony (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by John Steinbeck Raised on a ranch in northern California, Jody is well-schooled in the hard work and demands of a rancher's life. He is used to the way of horses, too; but nothing has prepared him for the special connection he will forge with Gabilan, the hot-tempered pony his father gives him. With Billy Buck, the hired hand, Jody tends and trains his... Today's Bargain Price: $4.99 Categories: Unknown | | |
| Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck Adopting the structure and themes of the Arthurian legend, John Steinbeck created a “Camelot” on a shabby hillside above the town of Monterey, California, and peopled it with a colorful band of knights. At the center of the tale is Danny, whose house, like Arthur’s castle, becomes a gathering place for men looking for adventure... Today's Bargain Price: $13.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Historical Fiction | | |
| Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck An intimate journey across and in search of America, as told by one of its most beloved writers, in a deluxe centennial edition In September 1960, John Steinbeck embarked on a journey across America. He felt that he might have lost touch with the country, with its speech, the smell of its grass and trees, its color and quality of light... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Categories: All Biographies & Memoirs | | |
| Steinbeck in Vietnam: Dispatches from the War by John Steinbeck Although his career continued for almost three decades after the 1939 publication of The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck is still most closely associated with his Depression-era works of social struggle. But from Pearl Harbor on, he often wrote passionate accounts of America’s wars based on his own firsthand experience. Vietnam was no... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Categories: All Biographies & Memoirs | | |
| Conversations with John Steinbeck by Thomas Fensch Conversations with John Steinbeck contains all the public interviews Steinbeck gave during his life. His life, it seems in retrospect, can be seen in three phrases: his early life in his native state of California; the war years of the 1940s and the years thereafter. In the earliest interviews in this collection, his is seen actually... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Or FREE with  Categories: All Biographies & Memoirs | | |
| The Wayward Bus (Penguin Classics) by John Steinbeck A Penguin Classic In his first novel to follow the publication of his enormous success, The Grapes of Wrath , Steinbeck’s vision comes wonderfully to life in this imaginative and unsentimental chronicle of a bus traveling California’s back roads, transporting the lost and the lonely, the good and the greedy, the stupid and the... Today's Bargain Price: $13.99 Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
| The Winter of Our Discontent (Penguin Classics) by John Steinbeck The final novel of one of America’s most beloved writers—a tale of degeneration, corruption, and spiritual crisisA Penguin Classic In awarding John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel committee stated that with The Winter of Our Discontent, he had “resumed his position as an independent expounder of the truth, with an... Today's Bargain Price: $13.99 Categories: Unknown | | |
| America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction (Penguin Classics) by John Steinbeck A Penguin Classic More than four decades after his death, John Steinbeck remains one of the nation's most beloved authors. Yet few know of his career as a journalist who covered world events from the Great Depression to Vietnam. Now, this distinctive collection offers a portrait of the artist as citizen, deeply engaged in the world... Today's Bargain Price: $10.99 Categories: All Biographies & Memoirs; Writing and Publishing | | |
John Steinbeck (1902-1968), winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, achieved popular success in 1935 when he published Tortilla Flat. He went on to write more than twenty-five novels, including The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men.
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