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East of Eden
East of Eden is a novel by American author and Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck. Published in September 1952, the work is regarded by many to be Steinbeck’s most ambitious novel and by Steinbeck himself to be his magnum opus.[2] Steinbeck stated about East of Eden: “It has everything in it I have been able …
The Grapes of Wrath
American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The book won the National Book Awardand Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1962.Set during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on the Joads, a poor family of tenant farmers driven from their Oklahoma home by drought, economic hardship, agricultural industry changes, and bank foreclosures forcing tenant farmers out of work
Sophie’s Choice
See: Sophie’s Choice (film) Sophie’s Choice (novel) Sophie’s Choice (opera) The Golden Girls (season 4) Talk:Sophie’s Choice Help:Disambiguation Source:Wikipedia
Travels with Charley
1962 travelogue written by American author John Steinbeck
The Twelve Caesars
Set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
After Babel
Linguistics book by literary critic George Steiner, in which the author deals with the “Babel problem” of multiple languages.After Babel is a comprehensive study of the subject of language and translation
The Red and the Black
Historical psychological novel in two volumes by Stendhal, published in 1830. It chronicles the attempts of a provincial young man to rise socially beyond his modest upbringing through a combination of talent, hard work, deception, and hypocrisy