Forzados por la sequia y el acoso de los bancos, los Joad, una familia de granjeros de la Oklahoma rural y empobrecida de los anos treinta, emprenden un atribulado exodo a lo largo de la Ruta 66 con la intencion de buscar trabajo y una vida digna en California. Pero ni las advertencias de quienes regresan, pobres y desenganados, ni la muerte y la progresiva desintegracion de la familia, bastan para que cejen en su empeno. Y en su afan de supervivencia, conservan la entereza y la dignidad frente a la miseria moral de quienes se aprovechan de la miseria real. Posiblemente haya que huir del infierno para descubrir que no existe la tierra prometida. / Forced by drought and harassment of banks, the Joads, a family of farmers at the impoverished rural Oklahoma during the thirties, began a troubled exodus along Route 66 with the intention of seeking work and a decent life in California. They might discover that there is no promised land.

6 of Steinbeck's novels including the Red Pony and The Pearl are presented showing his purpose of furthering understanding among men

Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America?s greatest writers and cultural figures. We have begun publishing his many works for the first time as blackspine Penguin Classics featuring eye-catching, newly commissioned art. This season we continue with the seven spectacular and influential books East of Eden, Cannery Row, In Dubious Battle, The Long Valley, The Moon Is Down, The Pastures of Heaven, and Tortilla Flat. Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readers?and to the many who revisit them again and again."

Product Description: A STANDOUT in the Steinbeck canon, Cup of Gold is edgy and adventurous, brash and distrustful of society, and sure to add a new dimension to the common perception of this all-American writer. Steinbeck?s first novel and sole work of historical fiction contains themes that resonate throughout the author?s prodigious body of work...read more

Product Description: Tells a story of a young boy and life on his father's California ranch, raising a sorrel colt.

A poor fisherman dreams of wealth and happiness for his family when he finds a priceless pearl

A final installment of a four-part collection of the classic American writer's works features his later novels, including The Wayward Bus, Burning Bright, Sweet Thursday, and The Winter of Our Discontent, in a volume that is complemented by his final published account, Travels with Charley.

Product Description: Written as a play in story form, this novel traces the story of a man ignorant of his own sterility, a wife who commits adultery to give her husband a child, the father of that child, and the outsider whose actions affect them all

Traces a boy's journey into manhood after his father gives him a pony to train and care for.

Product Description: This exciting day-by-day account of Steinbeck's trip to the Gulf of California with biologist Ed Ricketts, drawn from the longer Sea of Cortez, is a wonderful combination of science, philosophy, and high-spirited adventure.

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.

This volume includes the original screenplay, with directors notes, and the narrative - which 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.

Product Description: Get your "A" in gear!They're today's most popular study guides-with everything you need to succeed in school. Written by Harvard students for students, since its inception SparkNotes™ has developed a loyal community of dedicated users and become a major education brand...read more

Product Description: Get your "A" in gear!They're today's most popular study guides-with everything you need to succeed in school. Written by Harvard students for students, since its inception SparkNotes™ has developed a loyal community of dedicated users and become a major education brand...read more

A poor fisherman dreams of wealth and happiness for his family when he finds a priceless pearl.

Product Description: A work of antic political satire from an American master In 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 have taken her place at the bar of a very good restaurant?; his uncle, a man of dubious virtue; his glamour-struck daughter and her beau, the son of the so-called ?egg king? of Petaluma, California; and a motley crew of courtiers and politicians, guards and gardeners...read more

The ambitions, dreams, failings, and innermost thoughts of a diverse group of passengers are revealed as they travel aboard a bus along the backroads of California.

A poor fisherman dreams of wealth and happiness for his family when he finds a priceless pearl.

Collects seven newspaper articles on migrant farm workers, squatters' camps and the Hoovervilles of California that the author wrote for 'The San Francisco News' in 1936, providing the factual foundation for the 'The Grapes of Wrath' published three years later.