Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world\"s greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith....

In 1940 Steinbeck sailed in a sardine boat with his great friend the marine biologist, Ed Ricketts, to collect marine invertebrates from the beaches of the Gulf of California. The expedition was described by the two men in Sea of Cortez, published in 1941....

An epic story of the nineteen-thirties\" Depression which traces the story of one destitute family among the thousands who fled the Dust Bowl to the promise of California, The Grapes of Wrath awakened the conscience of a nation....

The Pearl is Steinbeck\"s flawless parable about wealth and the evil it can bring. When Kino, an Indian pearl-diver, finds \"the Pearl of the world\" he believes that his life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana in church and their little boy, Coyotito, will be able to attend school....

The Wayward Bus travels through the backroads of the lush California countryside, transporting the lost and the lonely to new destinations. Juan Chicoy is at the wheel, a man of the land, hot-blooded and uninhibited....

Each of these delightful interconnected tales is devoted to a family living in a fertile valley on the outskirts of Monterey, California, and the effects that one particular family has on them all....

This classic collection of short stories serves as the ideal introduction to Steinbeck\"s work....

While fulfilling his dead father\"s dream of creating a prosperous farm in California, Joseph Wayne comes to believe that a magnificent tree on the farm embodies his father\"s spirit....

Steinbeck\"s first major critical and commercial success, Tortilla Flat is also his funniest novel. Danny is a paisano, descended from the original Spanish settlers who arrived in Monterey, California, centuries before....

Fifty new books, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry....

Meet the gamblers, whores, drunks, bums and artists of Cannery Row in Monterey, California, during the Great Depression. They want to throw a party for their friend Doc, so Mack and the boys set about, in their own inimitable way, recruiting everyone......

California\"s fertile Salinas Valley is home to two families whose destinies are fruitfully, and fatally, intertwined. Over the generations, between the beginning of the twentieth century and the end of the First World War, the Trasks and the......

George and his large, simple-minded friend Lennie are drifters, following wherever work leads them. Arriving in California\"s Salinas Valley, they get work on a ranch. If they can just stay out of trouble, George promises Lennie, then one day they......

John Steinbeck wrote some of the best and most famous American stories ever. Jody Tiflin is often alone and he knows little of the world. But one day he gets a pony. He learns how to love and his whole life changes....

Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of Americaas greatest writers and cultural figures. We have begun publishing his many works for the first time as blackspine Penguin Classics featuring......