{"product_id":"9781931082075","title":"Novels 1942-1952: The Moon Is Down, Cannery Row, The Pearl, East of Eden (Library of America)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis third volume in The Library of America's authoritative edition of \u003cb\u003eJohn Steinbeck\u003c\/b\u003e's writings shows one of America's most enduring popular writers continuing restlessly to explore new subject matter and new approaches to storytelling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Moon Is Down\u003c\/b\u003e (1942), set in an unnamed Scandinavian country under German occupation, dramatizes the transformation of ordinary life under totalitarian rule and the underground struggle against the Nazi invaders.In \u003cb\u003eCannery Row\u003c\/b\u003e (1945) Steinbeck paid tribute to his closest friend, the marine biologist Ed Ricketts, in the central character of Doc, proprietor of the Western Biological Laboratory and spiritual and financial mainstay of a cast of philosophical drifters and hangers-on. The comic and bawdy evocation of the main street of Monterey's sardine-canning district has made this one of the most popular of all Steinbeck's novels. Steinbeck's long involvement with Mexican culture is distilled in \u003cb\u003eThe Pearl\u003c\/b\u003e (1947). Expanding on an anecdote he had heard about a boy who found a pearl of unusual size, Steinbeck turned it into an allegory of the corrupting influence of sudden wealth. \u003cb\u003eThe Pearl\u003c\/b\u003e appears here with the original illustrations by Jos\u0026amp;eacute Clemente Orozco.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmbitious in scale and original in structure, \u003cb\u003eEast of Eden\u003c\/b\u003e (1952) recounts the violent and emotionally turbulent history of a Salinas Valley family through several generations. Drawing on Biblical parallels, \u003cb\u003eEast of Eden\u003c\/b\u003e is an epic that explores the writer's deepest and most anguished concerns within a landscape that for him had mythic resonance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47052491817200,"sku":"9781931082075","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781931082075_p0.jpg?v=1763638504","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781931082075","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}