Delphi Complete Works of John Steinbeck

by John Steinbeck

A giant of American literature, John Steinbeck is celebrated for his naturalistic novels with proletarian themes. His magnum opus ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ (1939), which epitomises the harrowing events of the Clutch Plague era, stirred widespread sympathy for the plight of migrant workers. Many of Steinbeck's works are set in the Salinas Valley of his childhood and they frequently explore themes of fate and the injustices suffered by their everyman protagonists. Fashioned with rich symbolic structures, they convey archetypal qualities in enduring characters, winning for Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize for Literature. For the first time in literature, this eBook presents John Steinbeck’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, detailed introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Steinbeck’s life and works
* Detailed introductions to the major texts
* All 16 novels, with individual contents tables
* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* All of the story collections
* Features the rare short story ‘How Mr. Hogan Robbed a Bank’, appearing for the first time in digital publishing
* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories
* Easily locate the short stories you want to read
* Includes Steinbeck’s rare non-fiction books
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and genres

Please note: ‘The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights’ and several other minor posthumous works cannot appear in the collection due to copyright restrictions.

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CONTENTS:

The Novels and Novellas
Cup of Gold
The Red Pony
To a God Unknown
Tortilla Flat
In Dubious Battle
Of Mice and Men
The Grapes of Wrath
The Moon Is Down
Cannery Row
The Wayward Bus
The Pearl
Burning Bright
East of Eden
Sweet Thursday
The Short Reign of Pippin IV: A Fabrication
The Winter of Our Discontent

The Shorter Fiction
The Pastures of Heaven
The Long Valley
How Mr. Hogan Robbed a Bank

The Short Stories
List of Short Stories in Chronological Order
List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order

The Non-Fiction
The Harvest Gypsies
Bombs Away
A Russian Journal
The Log from the Sea of Cortez
Once There Was a War
Travels with Charley
America and Americans

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6690 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 2, 2019

About the author

John Ernst Steinbeck was an American writer. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception". He has been called "a giant of American letters."
During his writing career, he authored 33 books, with one book coauthored alongside Edward F. Ricketts, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories. He is widely known for the comic novels Tortilla Flat (1935) and Cannery Row (1945), the multi-generation epic East of Eden (1952), and the novellas The Red Pony (1933) and Of Mice and Men (1937). The Pulitzer Prize–winning The Grapes of Wrath (1939) is considered Steinbeck's masterpiece and part of the American literary canon. By the 75th anniversary of its publishing date, it had sold 14 million copies.
Most of Steinbeck's work is set in central California, particularly in the Salinas Valley and the California Coast Ranges region. His works frequently explored the themes of fate and injustice, especially as applied to downtrodden or everyman protagonists.