The final novel of one of America’s most beloved writers—a tale of degeneration, corruption, and spiritual crisis   In awarding John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel committee stated that with The Winter of Our Discontent, he had “resumed his position as an independent expounder of the truth, with an unbiased instinct for what is genuinely American.” Ethan Allen Hawley, the protagonist of Steinbeck’s last novel, works as a clerk in a grocery store that his family once owned. With Ethan no longer a member of Long Island’s aristocratic class, his wife is restless, and his teenage children are hungry for the tantalizing material comforts he cannot provide. Then one day, in a moment of moral crisis, Ethan decides to take a holiday from his own scrupulous standards. Set in Steinbeck’s contemporary 1960 America, the novel explores the tenuous line between private and public honesty, and today ranks alongside his most acclaimed works of penetrating insight into the American condition. This Penguin Classics edition features an introduction and notes by leading Steinbeck scholar Susan Shillinglaw.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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The Winter Of Our Discontent

"Steinbeck is an artists; and he tells the stories of these lovable thieves and adulterers with a gentle and poetic purity of heart and of prose." —New York Herald TribuneA Penguin ClassicAdopting the structure and themes of the Arthurian legend, John Steinbeck created a “Camelot” on a shabby hillside above the town of Monterey, California, and peopled it with a colorful band of knights. At the center of the tale is Danny, whose house, like Arthur’s castle, becomes a gathering place for men looking for adventure, camaraderie, and a sense of belonging—men who fiercely resist the corrupting tide of honest toil and civil rectitude.As Nobel Prize winner Steinbeck chronicles their deeds—their multiple lovers, their wonderful brawls, their Rabelaisian wine-drinking—he spins a tale as compelling and ultimately as touched by sorrow as the famous legends of the Round Table, which inspired him. This edition features an introduction by Thomas Fensch.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Tortilla flat

An intimate journey across America, as told by one of its most beloved writersTo hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the light—these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had been writing about for so many years.With Charley, his French poodle, Steinbeck drives the interstates and the country roads, dines with truckers, encounters bears at Yellowstone and old friends in San Francisco. Along the way he reflects on the American character, racial hostility, the particular form of American loneliness he finds almost everywhere, and  the unexpected kindness of strangers

Travels With Charley

An intimate journey across America, as told by one of its most beloved writersA Penguin ClassicIn September 1960, John Steinbeck embarked on a journey across America. He felt that he might have lost touch with the country, with its speech, the smell of its grass and trees, its color and quality of light, the pulse of its people. To reassure himself, he set out on a voyage of rediscovery of the American identity, accompanied by a distinguished French poodle named Charley; and riding in a three-quarter-ton pickup truck named Rocinante.His course took him through almost forty states: northward from Long Island to Maine; through the Midwest to Chicago; onward by way of Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana (with which he fell in love), and Idaho to Seattle, south to San Francisco and his birthplace, Salinas; eastward through the Mojave, New Mexico, Arizona, to the vast hospitality of Texas, to New Orleans and a shocking drama of desegregation; finally, on the last leg, through Alabama, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey to New York.Travels with Charley in Search of America is an intimate look at one of America's most beloved writers in the later years of his life—a self-portrait of a man who never wrote an explicit autobiography. Written during a time of upheaval and racial tension in the South—which Steinbeck witnessed firsthand—Travels with Charley is a stunning evocation of America on the eve of a tumultuous decade. This Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction by Jay Parini.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators..

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A Penguin ClassicIn the two years after the 1939 publication of Steinbeck’s masterful The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck and his novel increasingly became the center of intense controversy and censorship. In search of a respite from the national stage, Steinbeck and his close friend, biologist Ed Ricketts, embarked on a month long marine specimen-collecting expedition in the Gulf of California, which resulted in their collaboration on the Sea of Cortez. In 1951, after Ricketts’ death, Steinbeck reissued his narrative portion of the work in memory of his friend and the inspiration for Cannery Row’s “Doc”. This exciting day-by-day account of their journey together is a rare blend of science, philosophy, and high-spirited adventure. This edition features an introduction by Richard Astro.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Log From The Sea Of Cortez

A Penguin ClassicFirst published in 1938, this volume of stories collected with the encouragement of his longtime editor Pascal Covici serves as a wonderful introduction to the work of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck. Set in the beautiful Salinas Valley of California, where simple people farm the land and struggle to find a place for themselves in the world, these stories reflect Steinbeck’s characteristic interests: the tensions between town and country, laborers and owners, past and present. Included here are the O. Henry Prize-winning story “The Murder”; “The Chrysanthemums,” perhaps Steinbeck’s most challenging story, both personally and artistically; “Flight,” “The Snake,” “The White Quail,” and the classic tales of “The Red Pony.” With an introduction and notes by John H. Timmerman.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Long Valley

"The Moon is Down" Steinbeck's comment on the moral and ethical implications of war, begins in an unknown town that has just been occupied by a small regiment of enemy soldiers. With no altenrnative, the Mayor of the town agrees to meet with the enemy to try to work out a plan for peaceful co-existence before the impending war goes much further.

The Moon Is Down

Based on a Mexican folktale, John Steinbeck tells a deceptively simple tale of good and evil, love and human nature. It's an easy win for any reader.“There it lay, the great pearl, perfect as the moon.”One of Steinbeck’s most taught works, The Pearl is the story of the Mexican diver Kino, whose discovery of a magnificent pearl from the Gulf beds means the promise of a better life for his impoverished family. His dream blinds him to the greed and suspicions the pearl arouses in him and his neighbors, and even his loving wife Juana cannot temper his obsession or stem the events leading to tragedy. This classic novella from Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck examines the fallacy of the American dream, and illustrates the fall from innocence experienced by people who believe that wealth erases all problems.This Penguin Classics edition features an introduction by Linda Wagner-Martin and original illustrations by Mexican artist José Clemente Orozco.For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Pearl

A Penguin ClassicIn Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck’s beautifully rendered depictions of small yet fateful moments that transform ordinary lives, these twelve early stories introduce both the subject and style of artistic expression that recur in the most important works of his career. Each of these self-contained stories is linked to the others by the presence of the Munroes, a family whose misguided behavior and lack of sensitivity precipitate disasters and tragedies. As the individual dramas unfold, Steinbeck reveals the self-deceptions, intellectual limitations, and emotional vulnerabilities that shape the characters’ reactions and gradually erode the harmony and dreams that once formed the foundation of the community. This edition includes an introduction and notes by James Nagel.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Pastures Of Heaven

París, un año de estos. Los representantes de los distintos partidos en la Asamblea Nacional no consiguen ponerse de acuerdo para formar gobierno. Finalmente se impone una solución de compromiso: restaurar la monarquía. El candidato ideal parece ser el último descendiente de Carlomagno, Pipino Arnulfo Héristal, un modesto rentista dedicado a su gran afición, la astronomía. Pipino no desea ser rey, pero a regañadientes acepta la corona.

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El breve reinado de pipino IV

«Mi plan era claro, conciso y razonable, creo yo. He viajado por diversas partes del mundo durante muchos años. En Estados Unidos vivo en Nueva York, o me voy a Chicago o a San Francisco. Pero Nueva York no es más los Estados Unidos de lo que París es Francia o Londres es Inglaterra. Así que descubrí que no conocía mi propio país. Yo, un escritor estadounidense, que escribía sobre Estados Unidos, estaba trabajando de memoria, y la memoria es, en el mejor de los casos, un depósito defectuoso y deformado. No había oído el habla del país, ni olido la hierba ni los árboles ni las alcantarillas, ni visto sus cerros ni sus aguas, ni su color ni la calidad de su luz. Sabía de los cambios sólo por los libros y los periódicos. Pero, aparte de eso, llevaba veinticinco años sin sentir el país.» En 1960, Steinbeck, acompañado por su perro Charley, recorrió más de 16.000 kilómetros a lo largo de treinta y cuatro estados a bordo de su autocaravana Rocinante. Durante el viaje conversó con camioneros y campesinos, sintiendo los miedos y las esperanzas de sus compatriotas. Este delicioso libro, que llegó a ser Número Uno en ventas en su país, fue publicado poco antes de recibir el Nobel en 1962. «Pura delicia; un maravilloso viaje por Estados Unidos en el que Steinbeck estudia nuestros paisajes y también a sí mismo, analizando las dificultades emocionales de hacerse viejo.» The New York Times Book Review

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Viajes con charley en busca de estados unidos

Jody, el hijo de diez años de unos pequeños rancheros del valle de Salinas, en California, recibe un inesperado regalo de su padre: un pony colorado al que debe cuidar y que despierta la admiración de todos sus amigos. Hasta entonces, Jody ha vivido la existencia de un niño: la escuela, las pequeñas tareas del rancho y el vagabundeo por las praderas, acompañado de sus perros y con la sombra de las montañas al fondo. Ahora tendrá que adquirir responsabilidades de adulto y, con ellas, aprender una dura lección sobre el curso de la naturaleza. Por las páginas de este auténtico clásico de la literatura norteamericana, adaptado al cine en dos ocasiones, desfilan personajes como Gitano, viejo vagabundo que viene a morir al valle y que posee una espada antigua, brillante "como un delgado rayo de luz negra"; el bracero del rancho, Billy Buck, hijo de Cola de Mulo Buck, y el mejor criador de caballos del condado; o el Abuelo, que guió una caravana de pioneros en lejanos tiempos de heroísmo y aventura. Pero por encima de todos, Jody, el niño solitario que se enfrenta por primera vez a los misterios de la vida, a la pérdida y la aceptación y, con ellas, a la añoranza. Novela de iniciación profundamente lírica, El pony colorado figura entre las piezas maestras de John Steinbeck

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Joe Saul podría ser cualquiera, un acróbata, un granjero o un marinero, movido por el intenso deseo de transmitir a un hijo toda la herencia de los suyos. ¿Es capaz de conseguirlo? ¿Y de entender qué escollos debe superar por el camino? En esta dramática obra, escrita siguiendo la misma fórmula de De ratones y hombres y La luna se ha puesto, John Steinbeck reflexiona con desgarro sobre el valor de la sangre, el legado, el orgullo y la amistad, sobre pasiones primarias del hombre y sobre la serenidad necesaria para comprenderlas. Como señaló el propio autor en su discurso de aceptación del premio Nobel de Literatura en 1962, «debemos buscar en nuestro interior la responsabilidad y la sabiduría que en su día nuestros rezos quisieron adjudicar a alguna deidad».

En la jungla de la noche

Publicada en 1945, Cannery Row reúne lo mejor del talento narrativo de John Steinbeck: ternura, humor, un desenfrenado lirismo y una inigualable penetración en el dibujo de situaciones y personajes. Mosaico de la fauna portuaria de la costa oeste, con sus ruidosos honky-tonks, sus solares cubiertos de hierba y sus bosques d e pinos, la novela fue adaptada al cine en 1982, con Nick Nolte y Debra Winger en los papeles protagonistas. Cannery Row, el arrabal conservero de Monterrey, es un poema, un hedor,un ruido chirriante, una cualidad de la luz, una tonalidad, un hábito, una nostalgia, un sueño. Es el lugar donde viven Mack y sus muchachos, golfos y vagabundos de buen corazón; y Doc, el científico individualista, alma auténtica del barrio; y Dora, bondadosa madame del burdel Bandera del Oso; y Lee Chong, el astuto tendero chino que siempre acaba proporcionando crédito para todas las francachelas. Y los pescadores y los perros callejeros y las prostitutas y los artistas y los soldados con sus novias. Sobre las cabañas y los bares de Cannery Row gravitan las fuerzas del bien y del mal, que arrastran a los personajes y les confieren la función de catalizadores de la gran urdimbre cósmica. Serán quizá esas poderosas influencias - en combinación con tres o cuatro garrafas de whisky - las que actúen para torcer los planes de Mack y sus amigos cuando estos intenten agasajar a Doc con la mejor fiesta de su vida.

Cannery row

El breve reinado de Pipino IV es posiblemente la novela más gamberra y delirante de John Steinbeck (California, 1902-Nueva York, 1968), una sátira mordaz y despiadada del poder y la corrupción política. Llena de situaciones cómicas y absurdas, El breve reinado de Pipino IV representa la veta más divertida y cáustica del nar rador californiano, Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1962 y autor de obras inolvidables como Las uvas de la ira, Al este del edén o Tortilla Flat, publicada en esta misma colección.

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Steinbeck's only work of fantasy literature—in a deluxe edition with a foreword by Christopher Paolini, New York Times bestselling author of Eragon, Eldest and Brisingr A Penguin Classic Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur was the first book that John Steinbeck truly enjoyed reading as a child. Fascinated by Arthurian tales of adventure, knighthood, honor and friendship, in addition to the challenging nuances of the original Anglo-Saxon language, Steinbeck set out to render these stories faithfully and with keen animation for a modern audience. Here then is Steinbeck’s modernization of the adventure of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, featuring the icons of Arthurian legend—including King Arthur, Merlin, Morgan le Fay, the incomparable Queen Guinevere, and Arthur's purest knight, Sir Lancelot of the Lake. These enduring tales of loyalty and betrayal in the time of Camelot flicker with the wonder and magic of an era past but not forgotten. Steinbeck's retelling will capture the attention and imagination of legions of Steinbeck fans, including those who love Arthurian romances, as well as countless readers of science fiction and fantasy literature. This edition features a new foreword by Christopher Paolini, author of the number-one New York Times bestselling novels Eragon, Eldest, and Brisingr. It also includes the letters John Steinbeck wrote to his literary agent, Elizabeth Otis, and to Chase Horton, the original editor of this volume. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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The Acts Of King Arthur And His Noble Knights

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East Of Eden

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El invierno de mi desazón

Escrita justo después de Las uvas de la ira, esta novela narra el accidentado viaje de un desastrado autobús rural entre las poblaciones de Rebel Corners y San Juan de la Cruz, en California, al término de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Se convierte en un magistral retrato de personajes y en un acerado estudio sobre los problemas centrales de todos los hombres en todas las épocas: la familia, el sexo, el amor, las ambiciones, las frustraciones y los anhelos? Lejos del sentimentalismo y la autocomplacencia, es un viaje interior hacia el corazón de unos viajeros perdidos en la decepción del sueño americano. El autobús perdido contiene algunos de los grandes temas clásicos dentro de la obra narrativa del premio Nobel de Literatura John Steinbeck.

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«Mi plan era claro, conciso y razonable, creo yo. He viajado por diversas partes del mundo durante muchos años. En Estados Unidos vivo en Nueva York, o me voy a Chicago o a San Francisco. Pero Nueva York no es más los Estados Unidos de lo que París es Francia o Londres es Inglaterra. Así que descubrí que no conocía mi propio país. Yo, un escritor estadounidense, que escribía sobre Estados Unidos, estaba trabajando de memoria, y la memoria es, en el mejor de los casos, un depósito defectuoso y deformado. No había oído el habla del país, ni olido la hierba ni los árboles ni las alcantarillas, ni visto sus cerros ni sus aguas, ni su color ni la calidad de su luz. Sabía de los cambios sólo por los libros y los periódicos. Pero, aparte de eso, llevaba veinticinco años sin sentir el país.»  En 1960, Steinbeck, acompañado por su perro Charley, recorrió más de 16.000 kilómetros a lo largo de treinta y cuatro estados a bordo de su autocaravana Rocinante. Durante el viaje conversó con camioneros y campesinos, sintiendo los miedos y las esperanzas de sus compatriotas. Este delicioso libro, que llegó a ser Número Uno en ventas en su país, fue publicado poco antes de recibir el Nobel en 1962.   «Pura delicia; un maravilloso viaje por Estados Unidos en el que Steinbeck estudia nuestros paisajes y también a sí mismo, analizando las dificultades emocionales de hacerse viejo.» The New York Times Book Review

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John Steinbeck escribió El invierno de mi desazón en 1961, un año antes de recibir el Premio Nobel de Literatura, y es su última novela. El propio Steinbeck dijo de esta obra que «trata sobre una gran parte de Norteamérica tal como es hoy en día», prestando especial atención a la confrontación entre el dinero producto del trabajo y el heredado. Steinbeck estudia en esta obra qué es lo que hace que un hombre, Ethan Allen Hawley, empleado y antiguo propietario de una tienda de comestibles, cambie de valores, en apariencia de la noche a la mañana. Ese cambio tendrá lugar, precisamente, el 4 de julio, día de la fiesta nacional estadounidense. Podemos leer esta novela como una lúcida parábola sobre los valores de Estados Unidos, y de cómo el dinero puede repeler cualquier forma de honestidad. Un libro grandioso cuyo mensaje sigue plenamente vigente cincuenta años después de la muerte de su autor.

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John Steinbeck (1902-1968) es uno de los autores más influyentes de la narrativa estadounidense de todos los tiempos. Se dio a conocer al gran público con La taza de oro (1929) y obtuvo su primer gran éxito con De ratones y hombres (1937), a la que siguieron novelas inmortales como Las uvas de la ira (1939), galardonada con el Premio Pulitzer, La Perla (1947) y Al este del Edén (1952), entre otras. En 1962 obtuvo el Premio Nobel de Literatura.

The Winter Of Our Discontent (2008)

Tortilla flat (1997)

Travels With Charley (1980)

Travels With Charley (1997)

The Log From The Sea Of Cortez (1995)

The Long Valley (1995)

The Moon Is Down (1995)

The Pearl (1994)

The Pastures Of Heaven (1995)

El breve reinado de pipino IV (2013)

Viajes con charley en busca de estados unidos (2014)

El pony colorado (2009)

En la jungla de la noche (2010)

Cannery row

El breve reinado de pipino IV

Travels With Charley (2012)

The Acts Of King Arthur And His Noble Knights (2022)

East Of Eden (2016)

El invierno de mi desazón (2002)

El autobús perdido (2021)

Viajes con charley (2018)

El invierno de mi desazón (2018)

Los hechos del rey arturo

La taza de oro