John Steinbeck

A selection of dispatches written by the author from England, Africa, and Italy at the height of World War II.

Adam and Charles Trask grow up in the shadow of their father, Cyrus. Cyrus prefers Adam, inciting jealousy in his younger son. Adam is signed up for the cavalry, while Charles works on the family farm. Reuniting years later, the brothers live in peace until a beautiful woman nearly beaten to death arrives on their front porch. Adam nurses her back to health and falls blindly in love. But Cathy hides a cruel past. Adam and Cathy marry and have twin...

"Of Mice and Men" is the dramatic adaptation of one of Steinbeck's most widely read and beloved works. Originally published at the height of Nazi Germany's power, "The Moon Is Down" is a masterful play that uncovers profound, often unsettling truths about war and human nature. It tells the story of a peaceable town taken by enemy troops, and had an extraordinary impact as Allied propaganda in Nazi-occupied Europe.

Powieść - uznawana za jedno z najwybitniejszych dzieł Steinbecka - opowiada o tragicznym losie rodziny Trasków, która na przełomie XIX i XX wieku osiedliła się w dolinie Salinas. Adam Trask, farmer, samotnie wychowuje dwóch synów - Arona i Kaleba. Chłopcy różnią się od siebie jak woda i ogień, a jedyne, co ich łączy, to nieustanna rywalizacja o miłość surowego ojca. Aron jest spokojny i posłuszny, Kal to urodzony buntownik, który...

Two laborers work from ranch to ranch in the Salinas Valley of the 1930s, frustrated in their hope of having a place of their own.