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East of Eden
- Penguin Modern Classics
- By: John Steinbeck, David Wyatt - introduction
- Narrated by: Simon Manyonda
- Length: 26 hrs and 43 mins
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'There is only one book to a man,' Steinbeck wrote of East of Eden, his most ambitious novel. Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations hopelessly re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. Here Steinbeck created some of his most memorable characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity; the inexplicability of love and the murderous consequences of love's absence.
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Amazing writing, the narration disappointed me
- By Roger on 09-03-22
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East of Eden
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Narrated by: Simon Manyonda
- Length: 26 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 24-02-22
- Language: English
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Of Mice and Men
- Penguin Modern Classics
- By: John Steinbeck
- Narrated by: Billy Howle
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Drifters in search of work, George and simple-minded friend Lennie have nothing in the world except each other - and a dream. A dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventually they find work on a ranch, but their hopes are doomed as Lennie - struggling against extreme cruelty, misunderstanding and jealousy - becomes a victim of his own strength.
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Powerful
- By Mrs ML Denman on 03-08-21
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Of Mice and Men
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Narrated by: Billy Howle
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 15-07-21
- Language: English
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The Grapes of Wrath
- Penguin Modern Classics
- By: Robert DeMott - introduction, John Steinbeck
- Narrated by: Richard Armitage
- Length: 20 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Shocking and controversial when it was first published, The Grapes of Wrath is Steinbeck's Pultizer Prize-winning epic of the Joad family, forced to travel west from Dust Bowl-era Oklahoma in search of the promised land of California. Their story is one of false hopes, thwarted desires and powerlessness, yet out of their struggle Steinbeck created a drama that is both intensely human and majestic in its scale and moral vision.
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Everybody should read this book
- By Cromarty on 09-03-22
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The Grapes of Wrath
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Narrated by: Richard Armitage
- Length: 20 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 24-02-22
- Language: English
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Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters
- Penguin Modern Classics
- By: John Steinbeck
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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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.
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Solid
- By Dennis Caouki on 22-02-24
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Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 15-04-21
- Language: English
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The Wayward Bus
- By: John Steinbeck
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
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The Wayward Bus travels through the backroads of the lush California countryside, transporting the lost and the lonely to new destinations. Juan Chicoy is at the wheel, a man of the land, hot-blooded and uninhibited. His passengers include Ernest, a travelling salesman out for fun, seventeen-year-old Kit, also known as Pimples, and Camille the stripper, who dances at stag nights and takes the star-struck young Norma under her wing.
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Perfect Steinbeck
- By Miss Jane Cheshire on 26-04-23
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The Wayward Bus
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 29-10-20
- Language: English
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The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
- Penguin Modern Classics
- By: John Steinbeck
- Narrated by: Nezar Alderazi
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
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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.
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The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Narrated by: Nezar Alderazi
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 15-04-21
- Language: English
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The Long Valley
- By: John Steinbeck, John Timmerman - editor introduction
- Narrated by: Holter Graham
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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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 themselves 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'.
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The Long Valley
- Narrated by: Holter Graham
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 26-11-20
- Language: English
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To a God Unknown
- By: John Steinbeck, Robert DeMott - editor introduction
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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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 and the farm flourishes - until one brother, scared by Joseph's pagan belief, kills the tree and brings disease and famine on the farm.
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Strange biblical tone
- By Bailey Tom Bailey on 18-11-24
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To a God Unknown
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 29-10-20
- Language: English
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The Winter of Our Discontent
- By: John Steinbeck
- Narrated by: David Aaron Baker
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
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Ethan Allen Hawley has lost the acquisitive spirit of his wealthy and enterprising forebears, a long line of proud New England sea captains and Pilgrims. Scarred by failure, Ethan works as a grocery clerk in a store his family once owned. But his wife is restless and his teenage children troubled and hungry for the material comforts he cannot provide. Then a series of unusual events reignites Ethan's ambition, and he is pitched on to a bold course, where all scruples are put aside.
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Fabulous prose by Steinbeck
- By Foxy on 12-09-24
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The Winter of Our Discontent
- Narrated by: David Aaron Baker
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 29-10-20
- Language: English
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A Russian Journal
- By: John Steinbeck, Susan Shillinglaw - introduction
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
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Just after the iron curtain fell on Eastern Europe, John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune. This rare opportunity took the famous travellers not only to Moscow and Stalingrad - now Volgograd - but through the countryside of the Ukraine and the Caucasus. A Russian Journal is the distillation of their journey and remains a remarkable memoir and unique historical document.
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Very interesting and enjoyable
- By Amazon Customer on 06-12-22
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A Russian Journal
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 26-11-20
- Language: English
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The Moon Is Down
- By: John Steinbeck, Donald Coers - introduction
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Originally published at the zenith of Nazi Germany's power, 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.
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An inspiration to all free peoples
- By Julie Catterson-Lindahl on 18-04-21
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The Moon Is Down
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 29-10-20
- Language: English
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Sweet Thursday
- By: John Steinbeck
- Narrated by: Jerry Farden
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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In Monterey, on the California Coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday - one of those days that's just bad from the start. But Sweet Thursday is sunny and clear, a day when anything can happen. Returning to the scene of Cannery Row, Steinbeck brilliantly creates its bawdy, high-spirited world of bums, drunks and hookers, telling the story of what happened to everyone after the war.
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Brilliant
- By Susan Pogmore on 25-07-24
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Sweet Thursday
- Narrated by: Jerry Farden
- Series: Cannery Row, Book 2
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 29-10-20
- Language: English
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The Grapes of Wrath
- By: John Steinbeck
- Narrated by: Shirley Knight, Jeffrey Donovan, Emily Bergl, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
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Based on the epic novel by Nobel Laureate John Steinbeck. Set during the Great Depression, tells the powerful story of the Joad family’s trek from the dust bowl of Oklahoma to the promise of a new life in California. But what they find threatens to rip apart their lives, and sever the ties that bind them together.
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Adaptation of the original work
- By Mden on 17-07-21
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The Grapes of Wrath
- Narrated by: Shirley Knight, Jeffrey Donovan, Emily Bergl, Mike Buie, Daniel Chacon, Maurice Chasse, Shannon Cochran
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
- Release date: 12-03-10
- Language: English
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The Pastures of Heaven
- Penguin Modern Classics
- By: John Steinbeck, James Nagel - introduction
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
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Each of these delightful interconnected tales is devoted to a family living in a fertile valley on the outskirts of Monterey, California, and the effects that one particular family has on them all. Steinbeck tackles two important literary traditions here: American naturalism, with its focus on the conflict between natural instincts and the demand to conform to society's norms, and the short story cycle. Set in the heart of 'Steinbeck land', the lush Californian valleys.
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Another Steinbeck Great
- By Miss Jane Cheshire on 31-08-22
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The Pastures of Heaven
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 28-01-21
- Language: English
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The Log from the Sea of Cortez
- Penguin Classics
- By: John Steinbeck, Richard Astro - introduction
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
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In 1940 Steinbeck sailed in a sardine boat with his great friend the marine biologist Ed Ricketts, to collect marine invertebrates from the beaches of the Gulf of California. The expedition was described by the two men in Sea of Cortez, published in 1941. The day-to-day story of the trip is told here in The Log, which combines science, philosophy and high-spirited adventure. An exhilarating and highly entertaining listen.
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The eulogy at the end is a work of marvel
- By Maria on 26-12-23
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The Log from the Sea of Cortez
- Penguin Classics
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 26-11-20
- Language: English
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The Pearl: Penguin Classics
- Penguin Modern Classics
- By: John Steinbeck, Jose-Luis Orozco, Linda Wagner-Martin
- Narrated by: Hector Elizondo
- Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
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When Kino, a poor Indian pearl-diver, finds 'the Pearl of the world' he believes that his life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana, and their son, Coyotito, will be able to attend school. Obsessed by his dreams, Kino is blind to the greed and even violence the pearl arouses in him and his neighbours. Written with lyrical simplicity, The Pearl sets the values of the civilised world against those of the primitive and finds them tragically inadequate.
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As good as when I grew up
- By Stephane Landau on 03-07-24
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The Pearl: Penguin Classics
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Narrated by: Hector Elizondo
- Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 28-01-21
- Language: English
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
- Penguin Modern Classics
- By: John Steinbeck, Jay Parini
- Narrated by: Gary Sinise
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
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In 1960, John Steinbeck set out in his pick-up truck with his dog, Charley, to rediscover and chronicle his native USA, from Maine to California. He felt that he might have lost touch with its sights, sounds and the essence of the American people. Moving through the woods and deserts, dirt tracks and highways to large cities and glorious wildernesses, Steinbeck observed - with remarkable honesty, insight and a humorous eye - the gamut of America and the people who inhabited it.
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As old as I am.
- By Brian Anderson on 14-09-21
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Narrated by: Gary Sinise
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 28-01-21
- Language: English
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Cannery Row: Penguin Classics
- Penguin Modern Classics
- By: John Steinbeck, Susan Shillinglaw
- Narrated by: Jerry Farden
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
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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?
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SteinBEST!
- By Al Ears on 11-09-21
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Cannery Row: Penguin Classics
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Narrated by: Jerry Farden
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 28-01-21
- Language: English
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The Short Reign of Pippin IV: A Fabrication
- Penguin Modern Classics
- By: John Steinbeck
- Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
- Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
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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.
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The Short Reign of Pippin IV: A Fabrication
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
- Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 28-01-21
- Language: English
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Tortilla Flat
- By: John Steinbeck, Thomas Fensch - introduction
- Narrated by: John McDonough
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
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Danny is a paisano, descended from the original Spanish settlers who arrived in Monterey, California, centuries before. He values friendship above money and possessions, so when he suddenly inherits two houses, Danny is quick to offer shelter to his fellow gentlemen of the road. Together, their love of freedom and scorn for material things draws them into daring and often hilarious adventures. That is, until Danny, tiring of his new responsibilities, suddenly disappears.
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The reader was expressive and descriptive
- By Mark Hobley on 14-04-24
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Tortilla Flat
- Narrated by: John McDonough
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 26-11-20
- Language: English
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