John Steinbeck

Travels with Charley in Search of America: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

by John Steinbeck & Jay Parini

Penguin Classics commemorates the 50th anniversary of Steinbeck's Nobel Prize with two stunning new editions of his best-loved works

At age fifty-eight, John Steinbeck and his poodle, Charley, embarked on a journey...

The Portable Steinbeck

by John Steinbeck & Pascal Covici

Penguin Classics commemorates the 50th anniversary of Steinbeck's Nobel Prize with Portable Steinbeck for the 21st century

It would be impossible to overstate John Steinbeck's enduring influence on American letters....

Of Mice and Men and The Moon Is Down

by John Steinbeck & James Earl Jones

Steinbeck’s two plays, dramatic adaptations of his most powerful short novels, Of Mice and Men and The Moon Is Down, features a foreword by award-winning actor James Earl Jones.  Celebrating its 75th anniversary,...

The Forgotten Village: Life in a Mexican Village

by John Steinbeck

The novelist who wrote THE GRAPES OF WRATH and the director who produced CRISIS AND LIGHTS OUT in Europe combined their superb talents to tell the story of the coming of modern medicine to the natives of Mexico....

Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research

by John Steinbeck

The collaboration of two friends—one a novelist, one a marine biologist— produced a volume in which fascinating popular science is woven into a narrative of man's dreams, his ideals, and his accomplishments...

Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Team

by John Steinbeck

A magnificent volume of short novels and an essential World War II report from one of America's great twentieth-century writersOn the heels of the enormous success of his masterwork The Grapes of Wrath-and at...

The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

by John Steinbeck

Collected here for the first time in a deluxe paperback volume are six of John Steinbeck’s most widely read and beloved novels—Tortilla Flat, The Red Pony, Of Mice and Men, The Moon Is Down, Cannery...

The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

by John Steinbeck

Steinbeck's only work of fantasy literature-in an illustrated deluxe editionJohn Steinbeck's retelling of Malory's beloved Arthurian stories will capture the attention and imagination of legions of Steinbeck...

Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, with Occasional Reference to History

by John Steinbeck

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...

The Winter of Our Discontent

by John Steinbeck

From a swashbuckling pirate fantasy to a meditation on American morality—two classic Steinbeck novels make their black spine debuts

In awarding John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel...

Sweet Thursday

by John Steinbeck

In Monterey, on the California coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday, which is one of those days that are just naturally bad. Returning to the scene of Cannery Row—the weedy...

Tortilla Flat

by John Steinbeck

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...

Once There Was a War

by John Steinbeck

"Nobel laureate John Steinbeck's bracing from-the-frontlines account of World War II-now with a new cover and introduction In 1943 John Steinbeck was on assignment for The New York Herald Tribune, writing from...

The Short Reign of Pippin IV: A Fabrication

by John Steinbeck & Robert Morsberger

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...

The Pastures of Heaven

by John Steinbeck

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...

To a God Unknown

by John Steinbeck

Set in familiar Steinbeck territory, To a God Unknown is a mystical tale, exploring one man's attempt to control the forces of nature and, ultimately, to understand the ways of God.

The Long Valley

by John Steinbeck

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...

The Moon Is Down

by John Steinbeck

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...

In Dubious Battle

by John Steinbeck

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...

The Wayward Bus

by John Steinbeck

Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America’s greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, his many works, beginning with the six shown...