John Steinbeck

Perlen er en roman af John Steinbeck fra 1945. Perlen skiller sig ud fra den typiske Steinbeck-roman, der normalt står mejslet i socialrealistisk granit om 1920'erne fattige USA. Perlen er imidlertid skrevet med den samme urokkelige indignation, men handlingen fokuserer mere på almenmenneskelige modsætningsforhold end …

Perlen er en roman af John Steinbeck fra 1945. Perlen skiller sig ud fra den typiske Steinbeck-roman, der normalt står mejslet i socialrealistisk granit om 1920'erne fattige USA. Perlen er imidlertid skrevet med den samme urokkelige indignation, men handlingen fokuserer mere på almenmenneskelige modsætningsforhold end …

In 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 the unruly French. Steinbeck creates around the infamous Pippin the most hilarious royal court ever: Pippin’s wife, Queen Marie, who might …

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 …

The Wayward Bus is a novel by American author John Steinbeck, originally published in 1947. The novel's epigraph is a passage from 15th-century English play Everyman, with its archaic English intact; the quotation refers to the transitory nature of humanity. Although considered one of Steinbeck's weaker novels at the …