![]() ![]() So, what is one to do after finishing such a powerhouse book? Fortunately, there are plenty of other volumes out there that can offer similar scope and power, such as these 10 titles drawn from around the world and throughout the years. Throughout, Steinbeck also indulges in much of the philosophizing for which he was known, specifically meditating heavily upon the Biblical story of Cain and Abel. The book extends backward as far as the Civil War and forward to the end of World War I, detailing several generations of both families, and how their fates intertwine. It should come as no surprise, then, that East of Eden is an ambitious and far-reaching book, chronicling the fictional histories of two families living in California’s Salinas Valley. “I think everything else I have written has been, in a sense, practice for this.” “It has everything in it I have been able to learn about my craft or profession in all these years,” he said. Considered by Steinbeck his magnum opus, East of Eden is a book about family and brotherhood, about good and evil, about jealousy and pride, and about the way history repeats itself. Originally published in 1952, Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck considered East of Eden to be his greatest work. East of Eden is the second book written by the Nobel and Pulitzer winner John Steinbeck that I read, after previously reading the short story The Pearl. ![]()
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