جان استاینبک

In Dubious Battle is a novel by John Steinbeck, written in 1936. The central figure of the story is an activist for "the Party" who is organizing a major strike by fruit pickers, seeking thus to attract followers to his cause. Prior to publication, Steinbeck wrote in a letter: This is the first time I have felt that I …

Sweet Thursday is a 1954 novel by John Steinbeck. It is a sequel to Cannery Row and set in the years after the end of World War II. According to the author, "Sweet Thursday" is the day between Lousy Wednesday and Waiting Friday.

"Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat."This compelling, dignified and moving novel was inspired by and based upon the Nazi invasion of neutral Norway. Set in an imaginary European mining town, it shows what happens when a ruthless totalitarian power is up against an occupied …

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 connection he will forge with Gabilan, the hot-tempered pony his father gives him. With Billy Buck, the hired hand, Jody …

Ethan Allen Hawley has lost the acquisitive spirit of his wealthy and enterprising forebears, a long line of proud New England sea captains and Pilgrims. Scarred by failure, Ethan works as a grocery clerk in a store his family once owned. But his wife is restless and his teenage children troubled and hungry for the …

تورتیلا فلت نام رمانی از جان استاینبک نویسنده آمریکایی است. تورتیلا فلت رمانی با بن مایه طنز است. تمام ماجراهای این رمان در محله‌ای به همین نام در شهر مونته ری رخ می‌دهد. شهرت و پول رهاورد نگارش این رمان برای جان استاینبک بود. این رمان شرح حال رنگین پوستان کالیفرنیا است که در عین فقر و تنگدستی با روحی شاد و بدون …

To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the light—these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had been writing about for so many years. With Charley, his French poodle, Steinbeck drives the interstates …

Published in 1945, Cannery Row focuses on the acceptance of life as it is: both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual. Drawing on his memories of the real inhabitants of Monterey, California, including longtime friend Ed Ricketts, Steinbeck interweaves the stories of Doc, Dora, Mack and his …

مروارید نام یک کتاب ادبی است که توسط جان اشتاین بک، نویسندهٔ اهل ایالات متحده آمریکا نوشته شده‌است. این کتاب یکی از آثار ادبی برجستهٔ جهان است.

شرق بهشت رمانی از جان استاینبک نویسندهٔ آمریکایی برندهٔ جایزه نوبل است که در سال ۱۹۵۲ به چاپ رسید. در این رمان استاینبک زندگی پیچیده دو خانواده ترسک و همیلتون و داستان‌های در هم گره خورده آن‌ها را به تصویر می‌کشد. استاینبک این رمان را در اصل خطاب به دو پسر کوچکش تام و جان نوشت که در آن زمان به ترتیب شش و نیم و چهار و …