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(0)John Steinbeck
21) Sweet Thursday
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English
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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 lots and junk heaps and flophouses of Monterey, John Steinbeck once more brings to life the denizens of a netherworld of laughter and tears, from Fauna, new headmistress of the local brothel, to Hazel, a bum whose mother must have wanted a daughter....
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English
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Just after the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe, John Steinbeck and Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune. This rare opportunity took the famous travelers not only to Moscow and Stalingrad--now Volgograd--but through the countryside of the Ukraine and the Caucasus. Hailed by the New York Times as "superb" when it first appeared in 1948, this work is the distillation of their journey and remains a remarkable...
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Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
10 CDs (11 hr., 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In 1941, Steinbeck and his close friend Ed Ricketts, a marine biologist, rented a ship and set about exploring the Gulf of California. The scientific data collected, along with Steinbeck's log of the journey, were detailed in the work Sea of Cortez. Ten years later, the log was published on its own, chock-full of elegantly described marine life and often-amusing anecdotes about the adventure.
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English
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Steinbeck turns the French Revolution upside down as amateur astronomer Pippin Héristal is drafted to rule the unruly French. Steinbeck creates around the infamous Pippin the most hilarious royal court ever: Pippin's wife, Queen Marie, who "might have taken her place at the bar of a very good restaurant"; his uncle, a man of dubious virtue; his glamour-struck daughter and her beau, the son of the so-called "egg king" of Petaluma, California; and...
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University of Virginia Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 190 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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Steinbeck in Vietnam offers for the first time a complete collection of the dispatches Steinbeck wrote as a war correspondent for Newsday. Rejected by the military because of his reputation as a subversive, and reticent to document the war officially for the Johnson administration, Steinbeck saw in Newsday a unique opportunity to put his skills to use. Between December 1966 and May 1967, the sixty-four-year-old toured the major combat areas of South...
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Library of America volume 86
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Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1996]
Physical Desc
1,067 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
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Unabridged.
Physical Desc
3 CDs (2 hr., 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A man can't scrap his bloodline, can't snip the thread of immortality. Such is the strength of Joe Saul's desperate longing for a child, that he feels as if a dark curse is upon him after three unfruitful years of marriage. Yet unbeknown to him, he is sterile. His beautiful, young, devoted wife loves him so much that she secretly conceives the child of another man. But when Joe discovers her deception, his anguish is greater than ever before.
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Library of America volume 72
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
1994.
Physical Desc
909 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
7 CDs (8 hr., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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From the mid-1650s through the 1660s, Henry Morgan, a pirate and outlaw of legendary viciousness, ruled the Spanish Main. He ravaged the coasts of Cuba and America, striking terror wherever he went. Morgan was obsessive. He had two driving ambitions: to possess the beautiful woman called La Santa Roja and to conquer Panama, the "cup of gold."
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Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
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Unabridged.
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1 CD (30 min.) : digital audio ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Set in a remote village, this story documents traditional life among the native population and the conflict brought by outsiders who want to introduce modernization.
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Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
4 CD (4 hr., 30 min.) : digital audio ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Shedding light on the equipment, operations, and personnel responsible for American air power during World War II, Steinbeck's nonfiction account of his experiences with the U.S. Army Air Force bomber crews aided the efforts to establish a new military branch--the U.S. Air Force. But it was Steinbeck's ability to capture trhe personal stories of crew members that give this work timeless appeal and renders it an enduring piece of both cultural and...