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East of Eden

71.4% complete
1952
225,395
2017
1 time
55 chapters
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1646
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Copyright © 1952
Pascal Covici

Dear Pat,

You came upon me carving some kind of little figure out of wood and you said, "Why don't you make something for me?"

I asked you what you wanted, and you said, "A box."

"What for?"

"To put things in."

"What things?"

"Whatever you have," you said.

Well, here's your box.  Nearly everything I have is in it, and it is not full.  Pain and excitement are in it, and feeling good or bad and evil thoughts and good thoughts - the pleasure of design and some despair and the indescribable joy of creation.

And on top of these are all the graditude and love I have for you.  And still the box is not full.


JOHN
The Salinas Valley is in Northern California.
May contain spoilers
His eyes closed and he slept.
No comments on file
Synopsis not on file
Extract not on file

 

Added: 14-Jun-2015
Last Updated: 04-Feb-2023

Publications

 01-Jan-1992
Penguin Books
Trade Paperback
In my libraryI read this editionOrder from amazon.comHas a cover imageBook Edition Cover
Date Issued:
Cir 01-Jan-1992
Format:
Trade Paperback
Cover Price:
$12.95
Pages*:
602
Read:
Once
Reading(s):
1)   23 Aug 2017 - 28 Sep 2017
Cover Link(s):
Internal ID:
13043
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-140-18639-5
ISBN-13:
978-0-140-18639-0
Printing:
16
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
Tiziano Vecellio - Cover Photograph
David Wyatt - Introduction
PENGUIN TWENTIETH-CENTURY CLASSICS

JOHN STEINBECK

East of Eden

Introduction by David Wyatt

The masterpiece of Steinbeck's later years - a powerful and vastly ambitious novel that is at once a family saga and a modern retelling of the Book of Genesis


In his journal, John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth.  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 is the work in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity; the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love's absence.

"A fantasia of history and myth... a strange and original work of art."
- The New York Times Book Review

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE
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Notes and Comments:
First published in the United States of America by The Viking Press 1952
Viking Compass Edition published 1970
This edition with an introduction by David Wyatt published in Penguin Books 1992
Sixteenth printing based on the number line

Canada: $18.99

I was bugged into reading this by my sister.  I put it off, but finally, I was glad that I did.

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Author(s)

John Steinbeck  
Birth: 27 Feb 1902 Salinas, California, USA
Death: 20 Dec 1968 New York, New York, USA

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