Wydawca: Penguin Books

Oprawa: miękka

‘Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don’t belong no place.’ 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 ...

Wydawca: Penguin Books

Oprawa: miękka

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 Hamiltons will helplessly replay the fall of Adam and Eve and the murderous rivalry of Cain and Abel.East of Eden was considered ...

Wydawca: Penguin Books

Oprawa: miękka

‘Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.’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, ...

Wydawca: PRÓSZYŃSKI i S-KA

Oprawa: broszura

Relacja z podróży Johna Steinbecka i Roberta Capy po Związku Radzieckim w czasach zimnej wojny to klasyczna pozycja z gatunku literatury podróżniczej.Tuż po opadnięciu żelaznej kurtyny, John Steinbeck, wówczas laureat Nagrody Pulitzera, oraz znany fotograf wojenny Robert Capa podjęli śmiałą wyprawę do Związku Radzieckiego z zamiarem napisania reportażu dla gazety „New York Herald Tribune”.Sławni podróżnicy mieli rzadką okazję odwiedzenia nie ...

Wydawca: MM Publications

Oprawa: miękka

American English During the Great Depression in the United States, and after the loss of their farm in Oklahoma, the Joad family is faced with a journey of more than one thousand miles to California in search of a better life. Can hope defeat poverty, illness, hunger, and even death as they follow their dream?