John Steinbeck

Vihan hedelmät on John Steinbeckin vuonna 1939 ilmestynyt klassikkoromaani. Kirja voitti Pulitzer-palkinnon 1940 ja oli yksi merkittävimmistä syistä siihen, että Steinbeck sai Nobelin kirjallisuuspalkinnon 1962. Romaania on myyty maailmanlaajuisesti yli 14 miljoonaa kappaletta. Yhdysvalloissa sitä luetaan usein …

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 …

Ancient pagan beliefs, the great Greek epics, and the Bible all inform this extraordinary novel by Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck, which occupied him for more than five difficult years. While fulfilling his dead father’s dream of creating a prosperous farm in California, Joseph Wayne comes to believe that a …

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.