Novels and Stories, 1932-1937: The Pastures of Heaven / to a god Unknown / Tortilla Flat / in Dubious Battle / of Mice and men [Audiobook] download free by John Steinbeck
- Listen audiobook: Novels and Stories, 1932-1937: The Pastures of Heaven / to a god Unknown / Tortilla Flat / in Dubious Battle / of Mice and men
- Author: John Steinbeck
- Release date: 1994/6/19
- Publisher: THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9781883011017
- Rating: 9.87 of 10
- Votes: 489
- Review by: Jason Hassell
- Review rating: 7.33 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/15
- Duration: 11H34M45S in 256 kbps (181.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-30
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WAV, AU, MP3, WMA, MP4, FLAC, MPEG4 (compression TBZ, RAR, ZIP, LZO)
- Total pages original book: 909
- Includes a PDF summary of 99 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 1H16M31S (19.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 'Deep down it's mine, right to the center of the world, ' says a Salinas Valley farmer about his land in John Steinbeck's To a God Unknown, and Steinbeck the writer could have said the same. From the very start of his career he evoked the landscapes and people of central California with lyrical intensity and unflinching frankness. Through his intimate rendering of that place and those people, he expressed his abiding concerns: community, social justice, and the elemental connection between nature and human society. Here for the first time in one volume are Steinbeck's early California writings. In prose that blends the vernacular and the incantatory, the local and the mythic, these five works chart Steinbeck's evolution into one of the greatest and most enduringly popular of American novelists. The Pastures of Heaven (1932), a collection of interrelated stories, delineates the troubled inner lives and sometimes disastrous fates of families living in a seemingly tranquil California valley. The surface realism of Steinbeck's first mature work is enriched by hints of uncanny forces at work beneath. A sense of primeval magic dominates To a God Unknown (1933), as a California farmer reverts to pagan nature worship and begins a tortuous journey toward catastrophe and ultimate understanding. Steinbeck's sympathetic depiction of the raffish paisanos of Tortilla Flat (1935), a ramshackle district above Monterey, first won him popular attention. The Flat's tenderhearted, resourceful, mildly corrupt, ever-optimistic characters are a triumph of life-affirming humor. In Dubious Battle (1936) plunges into the political struggle of the 1930s, painting a vigorous fresco of a migrant fruit-picker'sstrike. Anticipating the collective portraiture of The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck poignantly traces the surges and shifts of group behavior. With Of Mice and Men (1937), Steinbeck secured his status as one of the most influential American writers. Lenny and George, itinerant farmhands
- Other categories, genre or collection: Anthologies (non-poetry), Contemporary Fiction, Classic Books & Novels, Literary Studies: General
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 38.20 USD
- Dimensions: 133.6x206.5x30.23mm
- Weight: 607.81g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York, United States
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