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Burning Bright by John Steinbeck
$27.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Such is the strength of Joe Saul's desperate longing for a child, that he feels as if a dark curse is upon him after three unfruitful years of marriage. Yet unbeknown to him, he is sterile. His young, devoted wife loves him so much that she secretly conceives the child of another man. Soon Joe discovers ...Show more
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
"Cannery Row in Monterey in California" is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, nostalgia, and a dream". Meet the gamblers, whores, drunks, bums and artists of Cannery Row in Monterey, California, during the Great Depression. They want to throw a party for their friend ...Show more
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
'Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.'Meet the gamblers, whores, drunks, bums and artists of Cannery Row in Monterey, California, during the Great Depression. They want to throw a party for their friend Doc, ...Show more
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
$29.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This is a portrait of people on the margin of society, dependent on one another for both physical and emotional survival. Written in 1945 this book focuses on the acceptance of life as it is: both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual.
Cannery Row (Popular Penguins) by John Steinbeck
$9.95 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Unburdened by the material necessities of the more fortunate, the denizens of Cannery Row discover rewards unknown in more traditional society. Henry the painter sorts through junk lots for pieces of wood to incorporate into the boat he is building, while the girls from Dora Flood's bordello venture out ...Show more
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
$22.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America’s most enduring authors, in a commemorative hardcover edition In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich fa ...Show more
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel, follows the interwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations hopelessly re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. Here Steinbeck creat ...Show more
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
An epic human drama by John Steinbeck, one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century, "The Grapes of Wrath" depicts the devastating effects of the Great Depression, and won both the American National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. 'To the red country and part of the gray country of O ...Show more
Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck
$12.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow pool. On one side of the river the golden foothill slopes curve up to the stro ...Show more
Of Mice And Men (Barrington Stoke) by John Steinbeck
$21.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Teen
A superb story of power and beauty, critically acclaimed across the world and now available in an accessible format for all readers. Streetwise George and his big, childlike friend Lennie are drifters, searching for work in the fields and valleys of California. They have nothing except the clothes on t ...Show more
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
'Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place'. George and his large, simple-minded friend Lennie are drifters, following wherever work leads them. Arriving in California's Salinas Valley, they get work on a ranch. If they can ju ...Show more
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
'Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place.' George and his large, simple-minded friend Lennie are drifters, following wherever work leads them. Arriving in California's Salinas Valley, they get work on a ranch. If they can j ...Show more