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ISBN. 978-0-8021-2586-6 (First edition hardcover) OCLC. 951453058. Dewey Decimal. 813/.6. LC Class. PS3566.E718 O43 2017b. The Old Man is a stand-alone thriller novel by Thomas Perry, published by the Mysterious Press imprint of Grove Atlantic in January 2017.
East of Eden is a novel by American author and Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck, published in September 1952. Many regard the work as Steinbeck's most ambitious novel, and Steinbeck himself considered it his magnum opus. [ 2] Steinbeck said of East of Eden: "It has everything in it I have been able to learn about my craft or profession in all ...
The Eye of the Elephant: An Epic Adventure in the African Wilderness is a non-fiction book written by Delia Owens and Mark Owens, first published in 1992. It is a sequel to the Owens' 1984 book Cry of the Kalahari, beginning with their move from Botswana to Zambia. [1]
289946. Dewey Decimal. 813.52. The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. [ 2] The book won the National Book Award [ 3] and Pulitzer Prize [ 4] for fiction, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962.
John Ernst Steinbeck (/ ˈ s t aɪ n b ɛ k / STYNE-bek; February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) 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". [2]
The Pearl is a [ [novella] by the American author John Steinbeck. The story, first published in 1947, [citation needed] follows a pearl diver, Kino, and explores man’s purpose as well as greed, defiance of societal norms, and evil. Steinbeck's inspiration was a Mexican folk tale from La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico, which he had heard in ...
The Number: One Man's Search for Identity in the Cape Underworld and Prison Gangs is a non-fiction book written by Jonny Steinberg about South Africa's criminal tradition of prison gangs, and published in 2004 by Jonathan Ball Publishers. The book won South Africa's premier nonfiction literary award, the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award.
The following is a complete list of books published by John Steinbeck, one of the foremost American authors of the 20th century. Steinbeck published seventeen works of fiction and ten works of nonfiction between 1929 and 1966, as well as his work writing short stories and screenplays. [ 1] Born in California, his novels often center around ...