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 Hamiltons will helplessly replay the fall of Adam and Eve and the murderous rivalry of Cain and Abel.

East of eden

Journal of a novel: the east of eden letters

The snake ; other short stories

Vers le milieu du XVII? siècle, un garçon de quinze ans, Henry Morgan, natif du pays de Galles, s'embarqua sur un vaisseau qui allait à la Jamaïque. Il rêvait d'être le plus grand corsaire d'Angleterre. Sa volonté de fer lui permit de devenir le boucanier le plus terrible et le plus glorieux qu'on vît jamais à l'île de la Tortue et à la Gonave. À trente ans, pour couronner ses exploits, il résolut de prendre d'assaut la Coupe d'Or, Panama, la puissante ville espagnole. Mais le désir de la gloire est comme le désir de la lune : pour l'éprouver, il faut garder une âme d'enfant. Après avoir conquis et incendié Panama, l'âme enfantine d'Henry Morgan l'abandonna. Et quand plus tard il revint, vice-gouverneur de la Jamaïque, chargé d'honneurs et de fortune, il n'était plus qu'un homme qui s'ennuyait et craignait les scènes de ménage. Ce roman d'aventures, passionnant, somptueux, profond, montre un aspect à peu près inconnu en France de John Steinbeck : celui d'un écrivain qui a un sens aigu de l'histoire et de la mer.

La coupe d'or

The grapes of wrath

The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers.First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman’s stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. At once a naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel, and transcendental gospel, Steinbeck’s powerful landmark novel is perhaps the most American of American Classics.

Les Raisins de la colère

Depuis la guerre, bien des choses ont changé rue de la Sardine. Ses amis s'inquiètent pour Doc, qui peine à terminer sa thèse et semble se replier sur lui-même. Quant à la tenancière du bordel, elle se demande si sa nouvelle recrue a bien le profil de l'emploi. C'est alors qu'une idée complètement loufoque se met à germer dans le cerveau des habitants du quartier. Qui sait si, à force de ruse et de générosité, ils ne parviendront pas à atteindre leur but ? Tout peut arriver, par un tendre jeudi...
L'auteur des Raisins de la colère et d'À l'est d'Éden, prix Nobel de littérature, nous livre ici son roman le plus tendre et le plus gai, d'une délicatesse et d'une générosité savoureuses.

Tendre jeudi

'To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.'   Drought and economic depression are driving thousands from Oklahoma. As their land becomes just another strip in the dust bowl, the Joads, a family of sharecroppers, decide they have no choice but to follow. They head west, towards California, where they hope to find work and a future for their family. But while the journey to this promised land will take its inevitable toll, there remains uncertainty about what awaits their arrival . . .  Winner of the Pulitzer Prize,  The Grapes of Wrath  is an epic human drama, with a stunning new cover by renowned artist Bijou Karman.

John steinbeck the grapes of wrath

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.)

East of eden

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