John Steinbeck - Böcker

De skönaste planer, de må vara uppgjorda av möss eller människor, går ofta om intet, säger Robert Burns i sin dikt som gett namn åt John Steinbecks mästerliga lilla roman om de två kringvandrande lantarbetarna Lennie och George. George har hand om...

Läs mer »

När Adam Trask gifter sig med den vackra, demoniska Cathy lägger han grunden till livslång olycka för sig själv och sina efterkommande. Efter att ha fött tvillingsönerna Aron och Caleb lämnar Cathy familjen. Pojkarna får växa upp utan mor ändå får...

Läs mer »

1930-tal och depression i USA. När Tom Joad återvänder efter fyra år i fängelset finner han att hans familj vräkts från gården. De svåra tiderna tvingar familjen att packa allt de äger i sin skraltiga bil och ge sig av till Kalifornien. Dit har de...

Läs mer »

Steinbeck's first major critical and commercial success, TORTILLA FLAT is also his funniest novel. Danny is a paisano, descended from the original Spanish settlers who arrived in Monterey, California, centuries before. He values friendship abovemo...

Läs mer »

DET STORA KALASET är en underfundig roman med stort socialt patos. Denna nyöversättning av Einar Heckscher presenteras av Per-Olof Mattson , universitetslektor vid Stockholms universitet. Berättelsen utspelar sig i den lilla kuststaden Monterey i ...

Läs mer »

California's fertile Salinas Valley is home to two families whose destinies are fruitfully, and fatally, intertwined. Over the generations, between the beginning of the twentieth century and the end of the First World War, the Trasks and the Hamil...

Läs mer »

'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.' Shocking and controversial when it was first published, The Grapes of Wrath is Steinbeck's Pultizer Prize-winning epic of the Joad family, forced to travel west ...

Läs mer »

'There is only one book to a man,' Steinbeck wrote of East of Eden, his most ambitious novel. Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel, follows the intertwined destinies of two families - the Tr...

Läs mer »

EN UNDERBAR TORSDAG utspelar sig, precis som DET STORA KALASET, i denlilla fiskeristaden Monterey på Kaliforniens kust, snarlik den staddär författaren växte upp. Mac finns förstås där, han som ärden påhittigaste av dagdrivarna i Ungkarlspalatset....

Läs mer »

An epic story of the nineteen-thirties' Depression which traces the story of one destitute family among the thousands who fled the Dust Bowl to the promise of California, THE GRAPES OF WRATH awakened the conscience of a nation. Awarded the Pulitze...

Läs mer »

Drifters in search of work, George and his childlike friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except the clothes on their back - and a dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventually they find work on a ranch in California's S...

Läs mer »

'Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place.' George and his large, simple-minded friend Lennie are drifters, following wherever work leads them. Arriving in California's...

Läs mer »

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Class...

Läs mer »

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Grapes of Wrath is an epic human drama, with a stunning new cover by renowned artist Bijou Karman. 'To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the...

Läs mer »

Drifters in search of work, George and his childlike friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except the clothes on their back - and a dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventually they find work on a ranch in California's S...

Läs mer »

I sin genombrottsroman Riddarna kring Dannys bord , som är inspirerad av legenden om Kung Arthur och riddarna kring det runda bordet, beskriver Steinbeck med överdådig humor och stor inlevelse några så kallade paisanos obemedlade och obekymrade li...

Läs mer »

De skönaste planer, de må vara uppgjorda av möss eller människor, går ofta om intet, säger Robert Burns i sin dikt som gett namn åt John Steinbecks mästerliga lilla roman om de två kringvandrande lantarbetarna Lennie och George. George har hand om...

Läs mer »

The Pearl is a haunting and timeless tale of the dangers of unexpected wealth by Nobel prizewinner John Steinbeck, author of The Grapes of Wrath. It is one of The Originals from Penguin - iconic, outspoken, first. Kino is a desperately poor Mexica...

Läs mer »

Savvy George and gentle giant Lennie are drifters, hustling for a living in a string of dead-end jobs. George looks out for Lennie as they move from town to town, running from trouble and dreaming big. A place of their own, a piece of land, a bit ...

Läs mer »

'There is only one book to a man' Steinbeck wrote of East of Eden. Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel, follows the interwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - who...

Läs mer »

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 Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel...

Läs mer »

One of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World' 'Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.' Meet the gamblers, whores, drunks, bums and artists of Cann...

Läs mer »

In 1960, John Steinbeck set out in his pick-up truck with his dog Charley to rediscover and chronicle his native USA, from Maine to California. He felt that he might have lost touch with its sights, sounds and the essence of the American people. M...

Läs mer »

När Adam Trask gifter sig med den vackra, demoniska Cathy lägger han grunden till livslång olycka för sig själv och sina efterkommande. Efter att ha fött tvillingsönerna Aron och Caleb lämnar Cathy familjen. Pojkarna får växa upp utan mor ¿ ändå f...

Läs mer »

I nobelpristagaren John Steinbecks enda novellsamling DEN LÅNGA DALEN möts läsaren av tolvnoveller, omsorgsfullt utmejslade personporträtt av människor,nerifrån kuststaden och upp i den långa dalen mot Kaliforniensbergsmassiv och karga natur. Det ...

Läs mer »

Masterful linked short stories by Nobel prizewinner John Steinbeck, author of The Grapes of Wrath. The Red Pony is one of The Originals from Penguin - iconic, outspoken, first. Young Jody Tiflin lives on his father's California ranch. He is thrill...

Läs mer »

In Monterey, on the California Coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday - one of those days that's just bad from the start. But Sweet Thursday is sunny and clear, a day when anything can happen. Returning to the scene ...

Läs mer »