To a God Unknown

John Steinbeck

Publié par Penguin Books, le 30 novembre 2000

Résumé

Biographical noteNobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. His complete works will be available in Penguin Modern Classics. Main descriptionWhile fulfilling his dead father's dream of creating a prosperous farm in California, Joseph Wayne comes to believe that a magnificent tree on the farm embodies his father's spirit. His brothers and their families share in Joseph's prosperity andthe farm flourishes - until one brother, scared by Joseph's pagan belief, kills the tree and brings disease and famine on the farm. Set in familiar Steinbeck country, TO A GOD UNKOWN is a mystical tale, exploring one man's attempt to control theforces of nature and to understand the ways of God.

Au dieu inconnu

À l'est d'Eden

Des souris et des hommes

Les Pâturages du Ciel

Tendre Jeudi

Les Bohémiens des vendanges

À l'est d'Eden

La perle

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