The Long Valley

Informationen zum Autor John Steinbeck (1902-68) is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. During the 1930s, his works included The Red Pony , Pastures of Heaven , Tortilla Flat , In Dubious Battle , and Of Mice and Men . The Grapes of Wrath , published in 1939, earned him a Pulitzer Prize. In 1962, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Klappentext Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. His complete works will be available in Penguin Modern Classics. Zusammenfassung This classic collection of short stories serves as the ideal introduction to Steinbeck's work. Set in the idyllic Salinas Valley in California, where simple people farm the land and struggle to find a place for themeselves in the world, these stories reflect many of the concerns key to Steinbeck as a writer; the tensions between town and city, labourers and owners, past and present. Included here are the celebrated tales, THE MURDERER and THE CHRYSANTHEMUMS.

Product details

• Authors: John Steinbeck, Mr John Steinbeck, John Timmerman
• Assisted by: John Timmerman (Introduction)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.11.2000
• EAN: 9780141185514
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118551-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, Short Stories, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction: general and literary