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Cannery Row Popular Penguins by John Steinbeck
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
It all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible and hardcover editions, each with a type cover showcasing a gorgeously illustrated letter of the alphabet. In a design collaboration between Jessica Hische and Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley, the ...Show more
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America’s most enduring authors, in a commemorative hardcover edition 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 fa ...Show more
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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 - whose generations hopelessly re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. Here Steinbeck creat ...Show more
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
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Category: Fiction
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 ...Show more
Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool. On one side of the river the golden foothill slopes curve up to the stro ...Show more
Pearson Reader Level 2 - "Of Mice and Men" Pearson English Reader Level 2 by John Steinbeck
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Category: Reference | Series: Penguin Readers Simplified Text
Classic / American English George and Lennie are friends and they have plans for the future. But Lennie is not very smart and he sometimes makes trouble. George wants to help him but that is not always easy. Then one night, when Lennie is alone, something happens. What can George do now? Can he help - o ...Show more
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'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 t ...Show more
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
John Steinbeck's powerful evocation of the suffering and hardship caused by the Great Depression, and a panoramic vision of the struggle for the American Dream, The Grapes of Wrath includes a critical introduction by Robert DeMott in Penguin Modern Classics. 'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerv ...Show more
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics | Series: Clothbound Classics
After the phenomenal success of The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck should have enjoyed the fame, the wealth, and the Pulitzer Prize this book brought to him. But the public spotlight made him uneasy. In 1944, as he considered the personal impact of his prosperity, Steinbeck began The Pearl. Reworking an anc ...Show more
The Pearl: Popular Penguins by John Steinbeck
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
When Kino, an Indian pearl-diver, finds 'the Pearl of the world', he believes that his life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana in church and their little boy, Coyotito, will attend school. Obsessed by his dreams, Kino is blind to the greed, fear and violence the pearl arouses in him and ...Show more
The Vigilante by John Steinbeck
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern
The papers all said he was a fiend. I read all the papers. That's what they all said.'One of America's greatest writers explores mob violence, voyeurism and betrayal in these unforgettable tales of Californian life.
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