East of Eden (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)

出版者:Penguin Classics

作者:[美] John Steinbeck

页数:602

出版时间:1992-10-01

价格:USD 16.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780140186390

具体描述

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 eye-catching, newly commissioned art. This season we continue with the seven spectacular and influential books "East of Eden, Cannery Row, In Dubious Battle, The Long Valley, The Moon Is Down, The Pastures of Heaven," and "Tortilla Flat." Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readersaand to the many who revisit them again and again.

读后感

EAST OF EDEN John Steinbeck xi. The marriage fell apart in a way that allowed Steinbeck to project onto Adam and Cathy a sense that men are passive and women are angry. xi. Many critics deploy an Antaeus myth with Steinbeck and argue that the perceived fall...  

Lee, the Chinese-American housekeeper for the Trask family, is my favorite character in East of Eden. He is forced to speak in the Chinese pidgin dialect that enables him to survive in America. An orphan, he raises Adam's children after they are abandoned b...