Description: The second volume in The Library of America's authoritative edition of John Steinbeck features his acknowledged masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath. Written in an incredibly compressed five-month period, the novel had an electrifying impact upon publication in 1939. Tracing the journey of the Joad family from the dust bowl of Oklahoma to the migrant camps of California, Steinbeck creates an American epic, spacious, impassioned, and pulsating with the rhythms of living speech. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize and has since sold millions of copies worldwide.This text of The Grapes of Wrath has been newly edited based on Steinbeck's manuscript, typescript, and proofs. Many errors have been corrected, and words omitted or misconstrued by his typist have been restored. In addition, The Harvest Gypsies, his 1936 investigative report on migrant workers, which laid the groundwork for the novel, is included as an appendix.The Long Valley (1938) displays Steinbeck's brilliance as a writer of short stories, including such classics as "The Chrysanthemums," "The White Quail," "Flight," and "The Red Pony." Set in the Salinas Valley landscape that was Steinbeck's enduring inspiration, the stories explore moments of fear, tenderness, isolation, and violence with poetic intensity.The Log from the Sea of Cortez, an account of the 1940 marine biological expedition in which Steinbeck participated with his close friend Ed Ricketts, is a unique blend of science, philosophy, and adventure, as well as one of Steinbeck's most revealing expositions of his core beliefs. First published in 1941 as part of the collaborative volume Sea of Cortez, Steinbeck's narrative was reissued separately a decade later, augmented by the moving tribute "About Ed Ricketts."This is the second of four volumes in The Library of America edition of John Steinbeck's writings.
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Signed: No
Book Series: Library of America
Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Fiction
Original Language: English
Inscribed: No
Edition: Collector's Edition
Vintage: No
Personalize: No
Literary Movement: Modernism
Era: 1930s
Illustrator: none
Personalized: No
Features: Dust Jacket
Genre: World literature & Classics
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Language: English
Topic: Small Town & Rural, Diaries & Journals, Literary, Literary Collections, Fiction
Author: John Steinbeck
Publisher: Library of America, T.H.E.
Book Title: John Steinbeck: the Grapes of Wrath and Other Writings 1936-1941 (LOA #86) : The Grapes of Wrath / the Harvest Gypsies / the Long Valley / the Log from the Sea of Cortez
Item Length: 8.1in
Publication Year: 1996
Format: Hardcover
Item Height: 1.4in
Item Width: 5.1in
Item Weight: 23.8 Oz
Number of Pages: 1088 Pages
