The grapes of wrath

" A New Baytown, petit port de la Nouvelle-Angleterre, Ethan Allen Hawley gère avec une parfaite honnêteté l'épicerie dont il aurait dû être le propriétaire. Il accepte avec philosophie d'être le descendant d'une famille jadis puissante, mais ruinée. Jusqu'au jour où la belle Margie promet à sa femme, Mary, en lui tirant les cartes, qu'Ethan " sera son avenir "...Comment rester intègre quand tout le monde vous pousse vers la corruption ? Ethan acceptera-t-il de réussir au risque d'y perdre son âme ? Le romancier des Raisins de la colère nous donne, avec cet ultime roman, un merveilleux conte moral plein d'humour et de tendresse.

Une saison amère

"Steinbeck is an artist; and he tells the stories of these lovable thieves and adulterers with a gentle and poetic purity of heart and of prose." -- New York Herald TribuneAdopting the structure and themes of the Arthurian legend, Steinbeck created a "Camelot" on a shabby hillside above the town of Monterey,California and peopled it with a colorful band of knights. At the center of the tale is Danny, whose house, like Arthur's castle, becomes a gathering place for men looking for adventure, camaraderie, and a sense of belonging. These "knights" are paisanos, men of mixed heritage, whose ancestors settled California hundreds of years before. Free of ties to jobs and other complications of the American way of life, they fiercely resist the corrupting tide of honest toil in the surrounding ocean of civil rectitude.As Steinbeck chronicles their deeds--their multiple loves, their wonderful brawls, their Rabelaisian wine-drinking--he spins a tale as compelling and ultimately as touched by sorrow as the famous legends of the Round Table, which inspired him.

Tortilla Flat

An alternate edition can be found here.In 1940 Steinbeck sailed in a sardine boat with his great friend the marine biologist, Ed Ricketts, to collect marine invertebrates from the beaches of the Gulf of California. The expedition was described by the two men in Sea of Cortez, published in 1941. The day-to-day story of the trip is told here in the Log, which combines science, philosophy and high-spirited adventure.Log from the Sea of Cortez includes the narrative of the journey and the essay “About Ed Ricketts.” It does not include pictures and detailed descriptions of the species collected by Steinbeck and Ricketts. (See also Sea of Cortez.)

Dans La Mer De Cortez

En mars 1940, tandis que la guerre dévaste l’Europe, John Steinbeck s’embarque à bord du Western Flyer, et, avec une poignée de compagnons, entame une expédition à caractère scientifique dans les eaux de la mer de Cortez (golfe de Californie). Durant quelques semaines, il collectionnera des centaines d’échantillons du monde marin. Il écrira surtout ce journal de bord plein d’humour, de nostalgie et de sagesse. Mais son paisible voyage vient également rappeler, à juste titre, que les chemins de l’aventure passent aussi par la mer...

Dans la mer de Cortez

Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf beds that once brought great wealth to the kings of Spain and now provide Kino, Juana, and their infant son with meager subsistence. Then, on a day like any other, Kino emerges from the sea with a pearl as large as a sea gull's egg, as "perfect as the moon." With the pearl comes hope, the promise of comfort and of security....A story of classic simplicity, based on a Mexican folk tale, The Pearl explores the secrets of man's nature, greed, the darkest depths of evil, and the luminous possibilities of love.

La Perle

Set in the rich farmland of California’s Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families—the Trasks and the Hamiltons—whose generations helplessly reenact 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 of identity; the inexplicability of love; and the murderous consequences of love’s absence.

A l'est d'Eden

John Steinbeck a écrit Les Raisins de la colère entre juin et octobre 1938, dans un moment de bouillonnement et de tension extraordinaire. Tout au long de cette période, il a tenu un journal qui retrace scrupuleusement son expérience et le révèle dans les affres de la création. Face à la page blanche, aux doutes, aux obstacles qui le ralentissent, l'empêchent de penser, l'écrivain tient avec obstination le fil de l'écriture. Il défend ses personnages, son intrigue, guette le miracle qui pourrait lui offrir ce chef-d'oeuvre dont il est le premier à questionner la possibilité… En 1941, après le succès colossal du roman, après les controverses et les menaces, tandis que la guerre fait rage et que l'argent afflue, John Steinbeck reprend la plume. Seul son journal pourra le guider vers le nouveau livre d'une vie nouvelle.

John Steinbeck : Jours de travail - Les journaux des Raisins de la colère

More than four decades after his death, John Steinbeck remains one of the nation's most beloved authors. Yet few know of his career as a journalist who covered world events from the Great Depression to Vietnam. Now, this distinctive collection offers a portrait of the artist as citizen, deeply engaged in the world around him. In addition to the complete text of Steinbeck's last published book, 
  America and Americans
, this volume brings together for the first time more than fifty of Steinbeck's finest essays and journalistic pieces on Salinas, Sag Harbor, Arthur Miller, Woody Guthrie, the Vietnam War and more. This edition is edited by Steinbeck scholar Susan Shillinglaw and Steinbeck biographer Jackson J. Benson.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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