John Steinbeck
112 pages

"I saw the play when I was 16, before I read the book, and was just knocked out by it. I remember sitting in the theater and being unable to speak at the end. I had the same feeling after reading the...

John Steinbeck
601 pages

Three generations, two love triangles, one timeless story. East of Eden is an epic' 'novel full of good and evil, love and hatred, failure and redemption.

John Steinbeck
464 pages

Novels that set out to describe grand historical events sometimes struggle with scale: too big, and they lose the particular, the personal; too small, and they lose the immensity, the connectedness of...

John Steinbeck
464 pages

"This novel radicalized me. It changed my life. It made me a dedicated advocate of organizing and collective bargaining," says Ashley Judd, who came upon the classic when she was a young actor just st...