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A collection of newspaper articles about Dust Bowl migrants in California’s Central Valley by the author of The Grapes of Wrath.
Three years before his triumphant novel The Grapes of Wrath - a fictional portrayal of a Depression-era family fleeing Oklahoma during a disastrous period of drought and dust storms - John Steinbeck wrote seven articles for the San Francisco News about these history-making events and the hundreds of thousands who made their way west to work as farm laborers.
With the inquisitiveness of an investigative reporter and the emotional power of a novelist in his prime, Steinbeck toured the squatters’ camps and Hoovervilles of rural California. The Harvest Gypsies gives us an eyewitness account of the horrendous Dust Bowl migration, and provides the factual foundation for Steinbeck’s masterpiece.
'”Steinbeck’s potent blend of empathy and moral outrage was perfectly matched by the photographs of Dorothea Lange, who had caught the whole saga with her camera - the tents, the jalopies, the bindlestiffs, the pathos and courage of uprooted mothers and children.” (San Francisco Review of Books)
“Steinbeck’s journalism shares the enduring quality of his famous novel.... Certain to engage students of both American literature and labor history.” (Publishers Weekly)
©1936 The San Francisco News (P)2020 Audible, Inc.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
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"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.
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Tortilla Flat
- De: John Steinbeck
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Adopting the structure and themes of the Arthurian legend, 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, camaraderie, and a sense of belonging—men who fiercely resist the corrupting tide of honest toil and civil rectitude.
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A Good Book
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Celebrating its 75th anniversary, John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men remains one of America's most widely read and beloved novels. Here is Steinbeck’s dramatic adaptation of his novel-as-play, which received the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play in 1937-1938 and has featured a number of actors who have played the iconic roles of George and Lennie on stage and film, including James Earl Jones, John Malkovich and Gary Sinise.
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KETCHUP
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The Pearl
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In this short book illuminated by a deep understanding and love of humanity, John Steinbeck retells an old Mexican folk tale: the story of the great pearl, how it was found, and how it was lost. For the diver Kino, finding a magnificent pearl means the promise of a better life for his impoverished family. His dream blinds him to the greed and suspicions the pearl arouses in him and his neighbors, and even his loving wife cannot temper his obsession or stem the events leading to the tragedy. For Steinbeck, Kino and his wife illustrate the fall from innocence of people who believe that wealth erases all problems.
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A Russian Journal
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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.
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The final novel of one of America’s most beloved writers - a tale of degeneration, corruption, and spiritual crisis. A 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 unbiased instinct for what is genuinely American". Ethan Allen Hawley, the protagonist of Steinbeck’s last novel, works as a clerk in a grocery store that his family once owned.
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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.
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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.
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Just go read or listen to East of Eden
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America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction
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More than three 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 original collection offers a portrait of the artist as citizen, deeply engaged in the world around him. In addition to the complete text of Steinbeck's last published book, America and Americans, this volume brings together for the first time more than 50 of Steinbeck's finest essays and journalistic pieces.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Travels with Charley in Search of America
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In September 1960, John Steinbeck and his poodle, Charley, embarked on a journey across America, from small towns to growing cities to glorious wilderness oases. Travels with Charley is animated by Steinbeck’s attention to the specific details of the natural world and his sense of how the lives of people are intimately connected to the rhythms of nature—to weather, geography, the cycles of the seasons. His keen ear for the transactions among people is evident, too, as he records the interests and obsessions that preoccupy the Americans he encounters along the way.
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Once There Was a War
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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.
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Eye opening to the way immigrants are treated
- De Amazon Customer en 10-06-20
De: Ronald Takaki
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Ramp Hollow
- The Ordeal of Appalachia
- De: Steven Stoll
- Narrado por: Brian Sutherland
- Duración: 13 h y 55 m
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Appalachia - among the most storied and yet least understood regions in America - has long been associated with poverty and backwardness. But how did this image arise, and what exactly does it mean? In Ramp Hollow, Steven Stoll launches an original investigation into the history of Appalachia and its place in US history, with a special emphasis on how generations of its inhabitants lived, worked, survived, and depended on natural resources held in common.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Almost unlistenable
- De Golf Fan en 09-13-18
De: Steven Stoll
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A Different Mirror
- A History of Multicultural America
- De: Ronald Takaki
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 18 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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Upon its first publication, A Different Mirror was hailed by critics and academics everywhere as a dramatic new retelling of our nation's past. Beginning with the colonization of the New World, it recounts the history of America in the voice of the non-Anglo peoples of the United States---Native Americans, African Americans, Jews, Irish Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, and others---groups who helped create this country's rich mosaic culture.
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3 out of 5 stars
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All mirrors distort
- De Michael en 04-02-17
De: Ronald Takaki
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The Idealist
- Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty
- De: Nina Munk
- Narrado por: Susan Nezami
- Duración: 7 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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Jeffrey Sachs - celebrated economist, special advisor to the Secretary General of the United Nations, and author of the influential best seller The End of Poverty - disagrees. In his view, poverty is a problem that can be solved. With single-minded determination he has attempted to put into practice his theories about ending extreme poverty, to prove that the world's most destitute people can be lifted onto "the ladder of development."
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4 out of 5 stars
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Sachs tries hard but the system is not there
- De Amazon Customer en 11-13-15
De: Nina Munk
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Fordlandia
- The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City
- De: Greg Grandin
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 15 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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Fordlandia by National Book Award finalist Greg Grandin tells the enthralling tale of Henry Ford’s failed attempts to transform a Connecticut-sized chunk of Brazilian rainforest into a homespun slice of American utopia.
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4 out of 5 stars
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An eye-opening account of an arrogant man's folly
- De Melissa en 09-17-13
De: Greg Grandin
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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
- Native America from 1890 to the Present
- De: David Treuer
- Narrado por: Tanis Parenteau
- Duración: 17 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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The received idea of Native American history - as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's mega-bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - has been that American Indian history essentially ended with the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. Not only did 150 Sioux die at the hands of the US Cavalry, the sense was, but Native civilization did as well. Growing up Ojibwe on a reservation in Minnesota, training as an anthropologist, and researching Native life past and present for his nonfiction and novels, David Treuer has uncovered a different narrative.
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4 out of 5 stars
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excellent text, awful narrator
- De D. Rubinstein en 12-01-19
De: David Treuer
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Black Potatoes
- The Story of the Great Irish Famine
- De: Susan Campbell Bartoletti
- Narrado por: Graeme Malcolm
- Duración: 3 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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In 1845, a disaster struck Ireland. Overnight, a mysterious blight attacked the potato crops, turning the potatoes black and destroying the only real food of nearly six million people. Over the next five years, the blight attacked again and again. These years are known today as the Great Irish Famine, a time when one million people died from starvation and disease and two million more fled their homeland.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A Decent Companion to Woodham-Smith's Book
- De Aaron en 11-03-11
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An Hour Before Daylight
- Memories of a Rural Boyhood
- De: Jimmy Carter
- Narrado por: Jimmy Carter
- Duración: 6 h y 50 m
- Versión resumida
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In an American story of enduring importance, former President Jimmy Carter re-creates his Depression-era boyhood on a Georgia farm, before the civil rights movement that changed the country.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A rare view of rural America
- De Samantha en 07-05-03
De: Jimmy Carter
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Progress
- Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
- De: Johan Norberg
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 6 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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It's on the television, in the papers, and in our minds. Every day we're bludgeoned by news of how bad everything is - financial collapse, unemployment, growing poverty, environmental disasters, disease, hunger, war. But the rarely acknowledged reality is that our progress over the past few decades has been unprecedented. By almost any index you care to identify, things are markedly better now than they have ever been for almost everyone alive.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Global Uptrends That May Surprise You
- De Alexandra Hopkins en 09-22-17
De: Johan Norberg
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Churchill's Secret War
- The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II
- De: Madhusree Mukarjee
- Narrado por: James Adams
- Duración: 12 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 160
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In 1943 Winston Churchill and the British Empire needed millions of Indian troops, all of India's industrial output, and tons of Indian grain to support the Allied war effort. Such massive contributions were certain to trigger famine in India. Because Churchill believed that the fate of the British Empire hung in the balance, he proceeded, sacrificing millions of Indian lives in order to preserve what he held most dear. The result: the Bengal Famine of 1943-44, in which millions of villagers starved to death.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Churchill and the case of 3 million dead Indians.
- De Rajesh en 11-04-11
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A Fierce Discontent
- The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920
- De: Michael McGerr
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 13 h y 22 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 74
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The Progressive Era witnessed the nation's most convulsive upheaval, a time of radicalism far beyond the Revolution or anything since. In response to the birth of modern America, one small group of middle-class Americans seized control of the nation and attempted to remake society from bottom to top. They accomplished an astonishing range of triumphs, yet the progressive movement collapsed as the war came to an end amid race riots, strikes, high inflation, and a frenzied Red scare.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A well balanced take
- De Ryan Mooney en 04-17-21
De: Michael McGerr
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Enough
- Why the World's Poorest Starve in An Age of Plenty
- De: Roger Thurow, Scott Kilman
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 11 h y 50 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 97
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For more than 30 years, humankind has known how to grow enough food to end chronic hunger worldwide. Yet while the Green Revolution succeeded in South America and Asia, it never got to Africa. More than 9 million people every year die of hunger, malnutrition, and related diseases every yearmost of them in Africa and most of them children. More die of hunger in Africa than from AIDS and malaria combined. Now, an impending global food crisis threatens to make things worse.
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3 out of 5 stars
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It's Time For Us To Be More Compassionate
- De James en 07-18-10
De: Roger Thurow, y otros
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Five Points
- The 19th Century New York City Neighborhood that Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum
- De: Tyler Anbinder
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 16 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 126
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All but forgotten today, Five Points was once renowned the world over. Its handful of streets in lower Manhattan featured America's most wretched poverty, shared by Irish, Jewish, German, Italian, Chinese, and African Americans. It was the scene of more riots, scams, saloons, brothels, and drunkenness than any other neighborhood in the new world. The story that Anbinder tells is the classic tale of America's immigrant past, as successive waves of new arrivals fought for survival in a land that was as exciting as it was dangerous, as riotous as it was culturally rich.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great historical piece
- De Jim Braunstein en 08-19-19
De: Tyler Anbinder
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The Graves Are Walking
- The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People
- De: John Kelly
- Narrado por: Gerard Doyle
- Duración: 13 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 424
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It started in 1845 and lasted six years. Before it was over, more than one million men, women, and children starved to death and another million fled the country. Measured in terms of mortality, the Great Irish Potato Famine was one of the worst disasters in the 19th century-it claimed twice as many lives as the American Civil War. A perfect storm of bacterial infection, political greed, and religious intolerance sparked this catastrophe.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unforgettable, Haunting, and a Compelling Warning
- De Carole T. en 08-22-12
De: John Kelly
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Bold Spirit
- Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America
- De: Linda Lawrence Hunt
- Narrado por: Pat Stien
- Duración: 6 h y 11 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 56
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In 1896, a Norwegian immigrant and mother of eight children named Helga Estby was behind on taxes and the mortgage when she learned that a mysterious sponsor would pay $10,000 to a woman who walked across America. Hoping to win the wager and save her family's farm, Helga and her teenaged daughter Clara, armed with little more than a compass, red-pepper spray, a revolver, and Clara's curling iron, set out on foot from Eastern Washington.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Norwegian boldness!
- De MAF/BPF en 04-03-18
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The Conquest of Bread
- De: Pyotr Kropotkin
- Narrado por: Peter Kenny
- Duración: 7 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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In The Conquest of Bread, first published in 1892, Kropotkin set out his ideas on how his heightened idealism could work. It was all the more extraordinary because he was born into an aristocratic land-owning family - with some 1,200 male serfs - though from his student years his liberal views and his fixation on the need for social change saw him take a revolutionary path. This led rapidly to decades of exile. It is a passionate, even a fierce polemic for dramatic social change.
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5 out of 5 stars
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“All is for All”
- De Gabriel en 01-02-19
De: Pyotr Kropotkin
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The Pastures of Heaven
- De: John Steinbeck
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 7 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 327
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 286
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 287
Today, nearly 40 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 Penguin Classics. 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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Golden, mythical America
- De Dan Harlow en 07-07-13
De: John Steinbeck
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A Russian Journal
- De: John Steinbeck
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 7 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 209
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 185
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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Extremely Interesting
- De Jean en 12-04-14
De: John Steinbeck
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To a God Unknown
- De: John Steinbeck, Robert DeMott - introduction
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 8 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 555
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 484
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 479
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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My Favorite Steinbeck; Terrible and Beautiful
- De Michael en 04-28-13
De: John Steinbeck, y otros
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The Red Pony
- De: John Steinbeck
- Narrado por: Frank Muller
- Duración: 2 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 336
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 286
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 287
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 horse, restlessly anticipating the moment he will sit high upon Gabilan's saddle. But when Gabilan falls ill, Jody discovers there are still lessons he must learn about the ways of nature and, particularly, the ways of man.
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3 out of 5 stars
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About the narration
- De Elle en 05-03-12
De: John Steinbeck
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The Moon Is Down
- De: John Steinbeck
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 3 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 558
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 489
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 485
"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.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A beautiful piece of propaganda!
- De Kelly en 05-08-17
De: John Steinbeck
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The Short Reign of Pippin IV
- A Fabrication
- De: John Steinbeck, Robert E. Morsberger - introduction, Katherine Morsberger - introduction
- Narrado por: Jefferson Mays
- Duración: 4 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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 place at the bar of a very good restaurant"; his uncle, a man of dubious virtue; and his glamour-struck daughter and her beau, the son of the so-called "egg king" of Petaluma, California.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Political Satire at its Best!
- De Matthew G. Lara en 03-01-20
De: John Steinbeck, y otros
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The Pastures of Heaven
- De: John Steinbeck
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 7 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 327
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 286
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 287
Today, nearly 40 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 Penguin Classics. 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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Golden, mythical America
- De Dan Harlow en 07-07-13
De: John Steinbeck
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A Russian Journal
- De: John Steinbeck
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 7 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 209
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 186
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 185
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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Extremely Interesting
- De Jean en 12-04-14
De: John Steinbeck
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To a God Unknown
- De: John Steinbeck, Robert DeMott - introduction
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 8 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 555
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 484
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 479
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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My Favorite Steinbeck; Terrible and Beautiful
- De Michael en 04-28-13
De: John Steinbeck, y otros
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The Red Pony
- De: John Steinbeck
- Narrado por: Frank Muller
- Duración: 2 h y 55 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 336
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 286
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 287
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 horse, restlessly anticipating the moment he will sit high upon Gabilan's saddle. But when Gabilan falls ill, Jody discovers there are still lessons he must learn about the ways of nature and, particularly, the ways of man.
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3 out of 5 stars
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About the narration
- De Elle en 05-03-12
De: John Steinbeck
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The Moon Is Down
- De: John Steinbeck
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 3 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 558
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 489
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 485
"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.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A beautiful piece of propaganda!
- De Kelly en 05-08-17
De: John Steinbeck
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The Short Reign of Pippin IV
- A Fabrication
- De: John Steinbeck, Robert E. Morsberger - introduction, Katherine Morsberger - introduction
- Narrado por: Jefferson Mays
- Duración: 4 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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 place at the bar of a very good restaurant"; his uncle, a man of dubious virtue; and his glamour-struck daughter and her beau, the son of the so-called "egg king" of Petaluma, California.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Political Satire at its Best!
- De Matthew G. Lara en 03-01-20
De: John Steinbeck, y otros
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Once There Was a War
- De: John Steinbeck, Mark Bowden - editor
- Narrado por: Lloyd James
- Duración: 7 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 386
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 336
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 339
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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The greatest war story(ies) ever told
- De Robert Achenbach en 07-16-15
De: John Steinbeck, y otros
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The Wayward Bus
- De: John Steinbeck, Gary Schamhorst - introduction
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 9 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 806
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 722
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 718
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 scheming, the beautiful and the vicious away from their shattered dreams and, possibly, toward the promise of the future. This edition features an introduction by Gary Scharnhorst.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Steinbeck always touches the heart, makes you feel
- De Kelly en 05-08-17
De: John Steinbeck, y otros
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Bombs Away
- The Story of a Bomber Team
- De: John Steinbeck, James H. Meredith - introduction
- Narrado por: Scott Aiello
- Duración: 4 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 34
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 figures of his generation, wrote Bombs Away, a nonfiction account of his experiences with US Army Air Force bomber crews during World War II. Now, for the first time since its original publication in 1942, Penguin Classics presents this exclusive edition of Steinbeck's introduction to the then-nascent US Army Air Force and its bomber crew.
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4 out of 5 stars
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History
- De Charlie en 10-16-24
De: John Steinbeck, y otros
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Cannery Row
- De: John Steinbeck
- Narrado por: Jerry Farden
- Duración: 5 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,490
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,007
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,990
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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Five stars with a Caveat
- De Bette en 04-23-12
De: John Steinbeck
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Tortilla Flat
- De: John Steinbeck
- Narrado por: John McDonough
- Duración: 7 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,052
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 907
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 911
Adopting the structure and themes of the Arthurian legend, 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, camaraderie, and a sense of belonging—men who fiercely resist the corrupting tide of honest toil and civil rectitude.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Good Book
- De LTCKEL en 09-06-14
De: John Steinbeck
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Burning Bright
- A Play in Story Form
- De: John Steinbeck, John Ditsky
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 2 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 30
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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The last of John Steinbeck's play-novelettes,
Burning Bright was the author's final attempt after 1937's
Of Mice and Men and 1942's
The Moon is Down to create what he saw as a new, experimental literary form. Four scenes, four people: the husband who yearns for a son, ignorant of his own sterility; the wife who commits adultery to fulfill her husband's wish; the father of the child; and the outsider whose actions will affect them all.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A bit Heavy Handed
- De Michael en 11-24-20
De: John Steinbeck, y otros
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The Log from the Sea of Cortez
- De: John Steinbeck
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 11 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 573
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 489
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 487
The Log from the Sea of Cortez is the exciting day-by-day account of Steinbeck's trip to the Gulf of California with biologist Ed Ricketts. Drawn from the longer Sea of Cortez, it is a wonderful combination of science, philosophy, and high-spirited adventure.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful Book
- De Stuart en 10-07-17
De: John Steinbeck
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The Long Valley
- De: John Steinbeck, John H. Timmerman - introduction
- Narrado por: Holter Graham
- Duración: 8 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 231
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 201
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 199
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.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Generally Good Stories, Some are Great
- De Michael en 06-18-13
De: John Steinbeck, y otros
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America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction
- De: John Steinbeck
- Narrado por: Henry Strozier
- Duración: 17 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 212
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More than three 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 original collection offers a portrait of the artist as citizen, deeply engaged in the world around him. In addition to the complete text of Steinbeck's last published book, America and Americans, this volume brings together for the first time more than 50 of Steinbeck's finest essays and journalistic pieces.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Really good Steinbeck journalism.....no kidding!
- De Doug en 07-26-14
De: John Steinbeck
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The Forgotten Village
- Life in a Mexican Village
- De: John Steinbeck
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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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.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Short and Not Essential Steinbeck
- De Michael en 11-24-20
De: John Steinbeck
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In Dubious Battle
- De: John Steinbeck
- Narrado por: Tom Stechschulte
- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 528
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 462
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This 1936 novel—set in the California apple country—portrays a strike by migrant workers that metamorphoses from principled defiance into blind fanaticism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The best story - ever ! Awesome narrator !!!!!!!!!
- De Inventing Mostly en 03-07-15
De: John Steinbeck
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Journal of a Novel
- The East of Eden Letters
- De: John Steinbeck
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 8 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Just go read or listen to East of Eden
- De S. Sweeney en 06-29-22
De: John Steinbeck
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- John Richburg
- 06-05-21
Eye Opening
This book has opened my eyes & mind to America. I found this after reading "Dubious Battle". I'm not sure in which order they should be read but they both need to be read !
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Total3 out of 5 stars
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- Michael
- 12-10-20
Steinbeck as Journalist
Steinbeck as Journalist
Although I love Steinbeck's novels I am not a big fan of his journalism (except his obituaries). As a journalist he is a bit heavy handed and tents to have a unbridled point of view. I added this to my read list just to finish off the Steinbeck on audible. This is slightly interesting from a historical perspective as well as in relation to the later The Grapes of Wrath.
The narration is good, but reflects the author's outrage which lacks journalistic distance.
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