Zapata

By John Steinbeck

Before there was Viva Zapata!, the acclaimed film for which John Steinbeck received Academy Award nominations for best story and screenplay, there was the original Zapata.In the research library of...

The Red Pony

By John Steinbeck

Raised on a ranch in northern California, Jody is well-schooled in the hard work and demands of a rancher's life. He is used to the way of horses, too; but nothing has prepared him for the special...

The Pearl

By John Steinbeck

“There it lay, the great pearl, perfect as the moon.”   Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf beds that once brought great wealth to the K...

East of Eden

By John Steinbeck

A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America’s most enduring authorsA Penguin Classic In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden “the first book...

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 At once naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, rood novel, and...

In Dubious Battle

By John Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men

By John Steinbeck

A controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great DepressionA Penguin Classic Over seventy-five years since its first publication, Steinbeck’s tale of commitment, loneliness, hope, an...

East of Eden

By John Steinbeck

Grapes of Wrath

By John Steinbeck

Cannery Row

By John Steinbeck

Steinbeck’s tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society, dependant on one another for both physical and emotional survivalA Penguin Classic Published in 1945, Cannery Row focuse...