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  • by John Steinbeck
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    Året är 1940 och John Steinbeck har tillsammans med sin vän marinbiologen Ed Ricketts givit sig ut på en forskningsresa till sjöss. Genom fartygets loggbok får vi dagligen följa resan, forskningen, och äventyren. På fartyget Western Flyer reser de till Montereybukten vid Kaliforniens kust för att samla in olika havslevande varelser. Bukten hade inte tidigare undersökts med någon större noggrannhet, och Steinbecks och Ricketts anteckningar är därför inte bara vetenskapligt intressanta, utan även humoristiska, fulla av filosofiska funderingar och äventyrliga upptåg.John Steinbeck (1902-1968) räknas som en av Amerikas viktigaste författare. Hans romaner är ofta breda, episka berättelser om amerikansk arbetarklass. 1962 belönades han med Nobelpriset i litteratur.

  • by John Steinbeck
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    Onsdagar, ofta refererad till som veckans värsta dag, har trots allt en bra egenskap. Den följs av den underbara torsdagen. En man, Doktorn, återvänder till Monterey i Kalifornien efter andra världskrigets slut, men finner att den förut så glada platsen med de tidigare så uppsluppna människorna nu är grå, och krigstrött. Dessutom har doktorns biologiska anstalten förfallit under hans frånvaro, och doktorn börjar känna att hans liv saknar syfte och mening. På luffarhotellet Lusasken och den närliggande bordellen Björnflaggan gör doktorns vänner deras bästa för att muntra upp honom, och sig själva. Men det som tidigare brukade göra doktorn glad verkar inte längre ha någon effekt. Det går snart upp för vännerna att det han verkligen behöver är någon att gifta sig med, och ett nytt mikroskop.John Steinbeck (1902-1968) räknas som en av Amerikas viktigaste författare. Hans romaner är ofta breda, episka berättelser om amerikansk arbetarklass. 1962 belönades han med Nobelpriset i litteratur.

  • by John Steinbeck
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  • by John Steinbeck
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    Från Maine i norr till Monterey i söder följer vi John Steinbeck på en resa genom USA med sin hund Charley. Året är 1960 och Steinbeck, som är medveten om att hans liv snart är till ända, vill se sitt älskade och hatade hemland en sista gång. Skarpsynt iakttar Steinbeck ett land i förändring, utan att ställa en enda fråga. Hans fängslande beskrivningar skiftar mellan komik och melankoli när han rör sig genom det amerikanska samhället och dess skuggsidor.John Steinbeck (1902-1968) räknas som en av Amerikas viktigaste författare. Hans romaner är ofta breda, episka berättelser om amerikansk arbetarklass. 1962 belönades han med Nobelpriset i litteratur.

  • by John Steinbeck
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  • by John Steinbeck
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  • by John Steinbeck
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  • by John Steinbeck
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    Under Anden Verdenskrig var den amerikanske forfatter John Steinbeck udsendt som krigskorrespondent for avisen "New York Herald Tribune", og "Der var engang en krig" indeholder en række af de artikler han skrev fra juni til december 1943.Steinbeck dækker ikke krigen direkte, men holder sig til beretninger om de mennesker, der lever med og som en del af krigen. Han fortæller blandt andet om amerikanske soldater med hjemve, der forsøger at dyrke deres egne grøntsager i englændernes haver og om festlighederne i Capri på Sicilien, da byen blev befriet af de amerikanske tropper.John Steinbeck (1902-1968) var en amerikansk forfatter, der skrev et væld af noveller og romaner, der er blevet oversat til flere forskellige sprog. I 1962 modtog John Steinbeck Nobelprisen i litteratur, og hans værker er bredt anerkendte verden over.

  • - Barrington Stoke Edition
    by John Steinbeck
    £7.99

    A superb story of power and beauty, critically acclaimed across the world and now available in an accessible, super-readable format with dyslexia-friendly features, for all readers.

  • - A Fabrication
    by John Steinbeck
    £10.99

    Steinbeck's only work of political satire turns the French Revolution on its head, as amateur astronomer Pippin Heristal is drafted in to rule the unruly French. Enchanting comedy ensues as Steinbeck creates the most hilarious royal court ever around the brief, bold reign of the corduroy-clad Pippin, his social-climbing wife Maria, his star-struck daughter Clotilde and her Californian beau, Todd. Featuring a motley crew of courtiers and con men, guards and gardeners, Steinbeck's late comic novel is an entrancing read about politics, power and the daily struggle not to lose one's head!

  • - The East of Eden Letters
    by John Steinbeck
    £10.99

    This collection of letters forms a fascinating day-by-day account of Steinbeck's writing of EAST OF EDEN, his longest and most ambitious novel. The letters, ranging over many subjects - textual discussion, trial flights of workmanship, family matters - provide an illuminating perspective on Steinbeck, the creative genius, and a private glimpse of Steinbeck, the man.

  • by John Steinbeck
    £21.99

    Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck was a prolific correspondent. Opening with letters written during Steinbeck's early years in California, and closing with an unfinished, 1968 note written in Sag Harbor, New York, this collection of around 850 letters to friends, family, his editor and a diverse circle of well-known and influential public figures gives an insight into the raw creative processes of one of the most naturally-gifted and hard-working writing minds of this century.

  • by John Steinbeck
    £10.99

    A new volume which includes the original screenplay, with its copious director's notes, and the narrative - this has followed on from a previously undiscovered manuscript by Steinbeck being found in the UCLA Research Library - the narrative treatment of the story on which he based his screenplay.

  • by John Steinbeck
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    Set in England, Africa and Italy this collection of Steinbeck's World War II news correspondence was written for the New Yolk Herald Tribune in the latter part of 1943.

  • by John Steinbeck
    £11.99

    Steinbeck's first posthumously published work, The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights is a reinterpretation of tales from Malory's Morte d'Arthur. In this highly successful attempt to render Malory into Modern English, Steinbeck recreated the rhythm and tone of the original Middle English.

  • - A Play in Story Form
    by John Steinbeck
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    'A man can't scrap his bloodline, can't snip the thread of immortality.' 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 beautiful, young, devoted wife loves him so much that she secretly conceives the child of another man. But when Joe discovers her deception, his anguish is greater than ever before... A powerful, tragic and deeply moving tale.

  • - A Life Of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, With Occasional Reference To History
    by John Steinbeck
    £10.99

    This lush, lyrical fantasy is Steinbeck's sole work of historical fiction. Henry Morgan ruled the Spanish Main in the 1670s, ravaging the coasts of Cuba and America and striking terror wherever he went. His lust and greed knew no bounds, and he was utterly consumed by two passions; to possess the mysterious woman known as La Santa Roja, the Red Saint, and to conquer Panama and wrest 'the cup of gold' from Spanish hands. Fantastic, swashbuckling stuff!

  • by John Steinbeck
    £7.99 - 8.99

    Originally published at the zenith of Nazi Germany's power, Steinbeck's fable THE MOON IS DOWN explores the effects of invasion on both the conquered and the conquerors. Occupied by enemy troops, a small, peaceable town comes face-to-face with evil imposed from the outside and betrayal from within the close-knit community. As he delves into the motivations and emotions of the enemy, Steinbeck uncovers profound and often unsettling truths both about war and human nature.

  • by John Steinbeck
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    In Monterey, on the California Coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday, which is one of those days that's just naturally bad. Returning to the scene of CANNERY ROW, the weedy lots, junk heaps and flop houses of Monterey, Steinbeck once again brings to life the denizens of a netherworld of laughter and tears. The book is in many ways a statement about Steinbeck's greatest theme: the common bonds of humanity and love which make goodness and happiness possible.

  • by John Steinbeck
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    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.

  • by John Steinbeck
    £11.99

    While fulfilling his dead father's dream of creating a prosperous farm in California, Joseph Wayne comes to believe that a magnificent tree on the farm embodies his father's spirit. His brothers and their families share in Joseph's prosperity andthe farm flourishes - until one brother, scared by Joseph's pagan belief, kills the tree and brings disease and famine on the farm. Set in familiar Steinbeck country, TO A GOD UNKOWN is a mystical tale, exploring one man's attempt to control theforces of nature and to understand the ways of God.

  • by John Steinbeck
    £7.99 - 11.99

    THE PEARL is Steinbeck's flawless parable about wealth and the evil it can bring. When Kino, an Indian pearl-diver, finds 'the Pearl of the world' he believes that his life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana in church and their little boy, Coyotito, will be able to attend school. Obsessed by his dreams, Kino is blind to the greed, fear and even violence the pearl arouses in him and his neighbours. Written with haunting simplicty and lyrical simplicity, THE PEARL sets the values of the civilized world against those of the primitive and finds them tragically inadequate.

  • by John Steinbeck
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    One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''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, so Mack and the boys set about, in their own inimitable way, recruiting everyone in the neighbourhood to the cause. But along the way they can't help but get involved in a little mischief and misadventure. It wouldn't be Cannery Row if it was otherwise, now would it?Packed with a ramshackle joi de vivre, Cannery Row is Steinback's high-spirited tribute to his native California.'Uninhibited, bawdy, compassionate, inquisitive, deeply intelligent' Daily Telegraph

  • by John Steinbeck
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    Øst for paradis (1952) er Steinbecks store dramatiske slægtsroman over tre generationer, hvor det gode kæmper mod det onde, som det er skildret i myten om Kain og Abel. I Steinbecks fortælling gentages kampen i to generationers brødrepar. I første generation er Charles i misundelse og ondskab tæt på at slå sin bror Adam ihjel. I anden generation følger vi brødrene Aaron og Caleb, der er sønner af Adam og den forførende, men dæmonisk ondsindede Cathy. Et mægtigt værk over livet i USA fra borgerkrigen til 1. Verdenskrig med et stort og mesterligt skildret persongalleri.”Romanen rummer både broderhad efter bibelens mønster, bordelhistorie, humor, tragik, sentimentalitet og grand guignol... et bevægende og eftertankevækkende billede af menneskets evige kamp mellem det gode og det onde.” – Jørgen Claudi”Dialogen svinger mellem den ordinære dagligtale og de mest sublime konstateringer, uden at tonens sandhed kommer i fare. Her er som i de rigtige romaner: fødsel, karakterudfoldelse, kærlighed og død, kort sagt skæbne, i rundhåndet mængde.” – Jacob Paludan”Steinbeck synes at øde af uudtømmelige kilder, når han lader det ene glimrende billede efter det andet af den jævne amerikaner i lyst og nød glide forbi vores øjne … Og ingen har som Steinbeck evnen til at lade et menneske fremstå med en tyngde, så vi mærker de kræfter, snart til det gode, snart til det onde, hvoraf hans handlinger fødes.” – Jens Kistrup

  • by John Steinbeck
    £12.49 - 10.49

    Juan og Alice Chicoy ejer en restaurant med tilhørende autoværksted i et øde vejkryds nær den mexicanske grænse. Mens den koleriske Alice passer restauranten sammen med en romantisk drømmende servitrice, passer den rolige, mandige Juan værksted og buskørsel sammen med lærlingen ’Bumse’, hvis tanker kredser om damer. I et forfærdeligt uvejr kører bussen en dag fast på en øde, mudderfyldt vej i Californien. Og i den usædvanlige situation opstår en række spændinger mellem de otte tilfældigt sammenbragte personer, der får den polerede overflade til at briste og personerne til at afsløre deres sande karakter og nå til nye erkendelser. Et eksistentielt drama.”En mægtig præsentation i sin art af en kolossal koncentreret kraftkilde. Et sprængfærdigt atom af en bog.” – Hans Brix”Aldrig har Steinbeck skrevet en så kunstnerisk behersket og fuldendt eller en så meningsfuld dybtloddende bog som denne … om nutidsmenneskets sjælelige nød og forvirring, dets angst og ensomhed, dets rørende drømme og længsler og først og fremmest dets dyriske begær og tarvelige egoisme … [Men romanen får] lys og varme af hans følelse af medansvar, af kærlig medfølelse og især af hans forstående humor.” – Jørgen Claudi”En af Steinbecks bedste bøger.” – Newsweek

  • by John Steinbeck
    £10.99

    I Et mægtigt gilde skildrer Steinbeck forholdene i den lille californiske by Monterey. Størstedelen af romanens handling udspiller sig i gaden Cannery Row, som bl.a. huser byens store konservesfabrik, bordelejer Doras 'etablissement' og købmand Lee Chongs butik. Fortællingens hovedperson er den snedige og manipulerende ungkarl Mack, der sammen med sine dagdrivervenner planlægger et gilde for marinebiologen Doc, som de skylder en tjeneste. Snart er alle byens beboere involverede i planlægningen af gildet, der dog ikke går helt som planlagt. Steinbecks personbeskrivelser er både humoristiske og gribende, og herigennem skaber han et charmerende portræt af en række skæbner på samfundets kant."Aldrig har John Steinbeck digtet mere forelsket om den californiske natur. Aldrig har han ladet en elskeligere bande opstå end Mack og hans drenge, der selvfølgelig rykker ind i et tomt hus uden at betale husleje. Aldrig har han skabt en klogere mand end doktoren, som bliver deres nabo og lever af at samle frøer og søpindsvin til laboratorier. Og aldrig er det lykkedes Steinbeck at skildre en harmoni som den, der hersker her mellem videnskab og vagabondering […] Med denne roman har John Steinbeck filosoferet, og det har han gjort på så lyrisk og lattermild en måde, at enhver må overgive sig." - Tom Kristensen, Politiken"Det er en henrykkende historie, et ildhjul af humor, vittighed og hjertelig menneskeforståelse." - Jacob Paludan, Nationaltidende

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