The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The Grapes of Wrath

Author: John Steinbeck

Shocking and controversial when it was first published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer prize-winning epic, The Grapes of Wrath, remains his undisputed masterpiece. Set against the background of Dust Bowl Oklahoma and Californian migrant life, it tells of the Joad family, who, like thousands of others, are forced to travel west in search of the promised land. Their story is one of false hopes, thwarted desires and broken dreams, yet out of their suffering Steinbeck created a drama that is intensely human, yet majestic in its scale and moral vision; an eloquent tribute to the endurance and dignity of the human spirit.

A Russian Journal

By John Steinbeck

A classic work of reportage from John Steinbeck and famed war photojournalist Robert Capa.

Just as the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe, Steinbeck and Capa began a remarkable journey through the Soviet Union. Their travels took them to Moscow and Stalingrad – now Volgograd – and the countryside of the Ukraine and the Caucasus. What they saw and movingly recorded was what Steinbeck called...

A classic work of reportage from John Steinbeck and famed war photojournalist Robert Capa.

Just as the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe, Steinbeck and Capa began a remarkable journey through the Soviet...

Published: 09/07/2001

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141186337

RRP: $35.00

The Wayward Bus

By John Steinbeck

A bus travels through the backroads of the lush Californian countryside, transporting the lost and the lonely to new destinations. Juan Chicoy is at the wheel, a man of the land, hot-blooded and uninhibited. His passengers include Ernest, a travelling salesman out for fun, seventeen-year-old Kit, also known as Pimples, and Camille the stripper who dances at stag nights and takes star-struck young Norma...

Published: 02/05/2001

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141186115

RRP: $26.95

The Pearl

By John Steinbeck

Published: 20/03/2012

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780241952467

RRP: $19.95

The Red Pony

By John Steinbeck

Published: 20/03/2012

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780241952504

RRP: $19.95

Cannery Row

By John Steinbeck

Published: 19/03/2012

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780241952450

RRP: $19.95

Of Mice and Men

By John Steinbeck

Published: 19/03/2012

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780241952481

RRP: $19.95

East of Eden

By John Steinbeck

Published: 19/03/2012

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780241952498

RRP: $19.95

The Grapes of Wrath

By John Steinbeck

Published: 19/03/2012

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780241952474

RRP: $19.95

Of Mice And Men: Pocket Penguin Classics

By John Steinbeck

Streetwise George and his big, childlike friend Lennie are drifters, searching for work in the fields and valleys of California. They have nothing except the clothes on their back, and a hope that one day they ll find a place of their own and live the American dream. But dreams come at a price. Gentle giant Lennie doesn t know his own strength, and when they find work at a ranch he gets into trouble...

Published: 06/03/2006

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141023571

RRP: $12.95

Of Mice and Men: Popular Penguins

By John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men is one of the best loved novellas of all time. Two drifters - small, shrewd George and huge, simple-minded Lennie - get work on a ranch, planning to raise enough money to get a place of their own and live off the land, if George can save his childlike, bull-strong friend from getting into trouble. A powerfully moving story of friendship, Of Mice and Men is a simply...

Published: 01/09/2008

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141038421

RRP: $9.95

Cannery Row: Popular Penguins

By John Steinbeck

In the din and stink that is Cannery Row a colourful blend of misfits – gamblers, whores, drunks, bums, and artists – survive side by side in a jumble of adventure and mischief. Doc, who owns the laboratory, is the fount of all generosity and wisdom. Everybody wants to do something nice for Doc: the trouble is, he always ends up paying. Packed with invention and joie de vivre, Cannery Row...

In the din and stink that is Cannery Row a colourful blend of misfits – gamblers, whores, drunks, bums, and artists – survive side by side in a jumble of adventure and mischief. Doc, who owns...

Published: 29/06/2009

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141045399

RRP: $9.95

The Pearl: Popular Penguins

By John Steinbeck

When Kino, an Indian pearl-diver, finds 'the Pearl of the world' he believes that his life will be magically transformed.

Published: 29/08/2011

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780143566410

RRP: $9.95

The Wayward Bus

By John Steinbeck

Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America's greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, his many works, beginning with the six shown here, will be published as black-spine Penguin Classics for the first time and will feature eye-catching, newly commissioned art.

Of this initial group of six titles, The Wayward Bus is in a new...

Published: 20/07/2006

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780142437872

RRP: $9.95

The Short Novels of John Steinbeck

By John Steinbeck

Collected here for the first time in a deluxe paperback volume are six of John Steinbeck's most widely read and beloved novels- Tortilla Flat, The Red Pony, Of Mice and Men, The Moon Is Down, Cannery Row , and The Pearl . From Steinbeck's tale of commitment, loneliness, and hope in Of Mice and Men , to his tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society in Cannery Row, to The Pearl'...

Published: 09/04/2010

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780143105770

RRP: $39.95

Of Mice & Men

By John Steinbeck

Drifters in search of work, George and his simple-minded friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except each other and a dream – a dream that one day they will have some land of their own.
Eventually they find work on a ranch in California's Salinas Valley, but their hopes are doomed as Lennie, struggling against extreme cruelty, misunderstanding and feelings of jealousy, becomes a victim of...

Published: 22/09/2000

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141185101

RRP: $18.95

East of Eden

By John Steinbeck

Set in the rich farmland of Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families – the Trasks and the Hamiltons – whose generations helplessly re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. Here Steinbeck created some of his most memorable characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery...

Set in the rich farmland of Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families – the Trasks and the Hamiltons – whose generations...

Published: 27/10/2003

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780141185071

RRP: $22.95