John Steinbeck Boeken
27 februari 1902 – 20 december 1968
John Steinbeck, Nobelprijswinnaar voor Literatuur, staat bekend om zijn portretten van het leven op het platteland van Californië en de strijd van de arbeidersklasse. Diep puttend uit zijn vormende jaren in de Salinas Valley, verkennen zijn verhalen de menselijke conditie en de veerkracht van gewone individuen. Steinbeck riep meesterlijk een uitgesproken gevoel voor plaats op, waarbij hij zijn verhalen doordrenkte met de authentieke geest van hun omgeving. Door middel van meeslepende personages en realistische weergaven van historische contexten zoals de Grote Depressie, onderzoekt zijn schrijven sociale onrechtvaardigheden en de blijvende kracht van de menselijke geest.
Sociale roman over het probleem van de seizoenarbeid tijdens de oogsttijd in Californië.
East of Eden
- 120bladzijden
- 5 uur lezen
Classic / American English All novels ...are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves between good and evil. John Steinbeck, one of America's greatest writers, considered East of Eden to be his most important work. Set in California, the novel is a story of love and jealousy, forgiveness and revenge--and what it means to be human.
When the Joads lose their farm in the Oklaholma dust-bowl, they join the thousands of people travelling towards the golden promise of California. Instead they meet hostility, humiliation and poverty. Steinbeck's portrait of the horrors of the Depression is a landmark of American literature and won the Pulitzer Prize.
A collection of 850 letters of the author to friends, family, his editor and a diverse circle of well-known and influential public figures. It opens with letters that were written during the author's early years in California, and closing with and unfinished 1968 note written in Sag Harbor, New York. schovat popis
Steinbeck. A Life in Letters
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- 32 uur lezen
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 condition of the world; and on his progress in learning his craft. Opening with letters written during Steinbeck's early years in California, and closing with a 1968 note written in Sag Harbor, New York, Steinbeck: A Life in Letters reveals the inner thoughts and rough character of this American author as nothing else has and as nothing else ever will.
Donated by the estate of Dr. Donald S. Moore.
