East of Eden (Penguin Classics) Penguin Classics

By John Steinbeck, Richard Poe

Tortilla Flat

By John Steinbeck

The Red Pony

By John Steinbeck

The Moon Is Down

By John Steinbeck

America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction

By John Steinbeck

A Penguin ClassicMore than four decades after his death, John Steinbeck remains one of the nation's most beloved authors. Yet few know of his career as a journalist who covered world events from th...

The Wayward Bus

By John Steinbeck

A Penguin ClassicIn his first novel to follow the publication of his enormous success, The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck’s vision comes wonderfully to life in this imaginative and unsentimental chroni...

The Grapes of Wrath

By John Steinbeck

The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great Americ...

Burning Bright

By John Steinbeck

The last of John Steinbeck’s play-novelettes and his final attempt, after 1937’s Of Mice and Men and 1942’s The Moon is Down, to create what he saw as a new, experimental literary formA Penguin Cla...

The Short Reign of Pippin IV

By John Steinbeck, Katherine Morsberger, Robert E. Morsberger

A Penguin ClassicIn his only work of political satire, The Short Reign of Pippin IV, John Steinbeck turns the French Revolution upside down as amateur astronomer Pippin Héristal is drafted to rule...

Sweet Thursday

By John Steinbeck

A Penguin ClassicIn Monterey, on the California coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday, which is one of those days that are just naturally bad. Returning to the scene...