Cannery Row
(Centennial Edition)
Steinbeck's tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society, dependant on one another for both physical and emotional survival
Unburdened by the material necessities of the more fortunate, the denizens of Cannery Row discover rewards unknown in more traditional society. Henry the painter sorts through junk lots for pieces of wood to incorporate into the boat he is building, while the girls from Dora Flood’s bordello venture out now and then to enjoy a bit of sunshine. Lee Chong stocks his grocery with almost anything a man could want, and Doc, a young marine biologist who ministers to sick puppies and unhappy souls, unexpectedly finds true love. Cannery Row is just a few blocks long, but the…
$24.00
February 5, 2002John Steinbeck, born in Salinas, California, in 1902, grew up in a fertile agricultural valley, about 25 miles from the Pacific Coast. Both the valley and the coast would serve as settings for some of his best fiction. In 1919 he went to Stanford University, where he intermittently enrolled in literature and writing courses until he left in 1925 without taking a degree. During the next five years he supported himself as a laborer and journalist in New York City, all the time working on his first novel, Cup of Gold (1929). After marriage and a move to Pacific Grove, he published two California books, The Pastures of Heaven (1932) and To a God Unknown (1933), and worked on short stories later collected in The Long Valley (1938).…
Cannery Row
John Steinbeck
La perla
John Steinbeck
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
Cannery Row
John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men: Teacher's Deluxe Edition
John Steinbeck
Travels with Charley in Search of America
John Steinbeck
The Portable Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men and The Moon Is Down
John Steinbeck
The Short Novels of John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
Bombs Away
John Steinbeck
The Forgotten Village
Story by John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck