John Steinbeck: Novels 1942-1952 (LOA #132)
The Moon Is Down / Cannery Row / The Pearl / East of Eden
This third volume in The Library of America's authoritative edition of John Steinbeck's writings shows one of America's most enduring popular writers continuing restlessly to explore new subject matter and new approaches to storytelling.
The Moon Is Down (1942), set in an unnamed Scandinavian country under German occupation, dramatizes the transformation of ordinary life under totalitarian rule and the underground struggle against the Nazi invaders.In Cannery Row (1945) Steinbeck paid tribute to his closest friend, the marine biologist Ed Ricketts, in the central character of Doc, proprietor of the Western Biological Laboratory and spiritual and financial mainstay of a cast of philosophical drifters and hangers-on. The comic and bawdy evocation of the main street of Monterey's sardine-canning district has made…
John Steinbeck (1902-1968) was one of the most celebrated writers of the last century, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1939 for The Grapes of Wrath and of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.
John Steinbeck: Novels 1942-1952 (LOA #132)
John Steinbeck
