Burning Bright: A Play in Story Form (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Steinbeck, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014303944X ISBN 13: 9780143039440

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2006

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Book by Steinbeck John

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By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

"A morality play conceived with poetic intensity." --New York Herald Tribune

"[Burning Bright's] four solitary characters are neither flesh-and-blood nor stock figures; husband, wife, friend, outsider, they are the legendary archetypes of folklore, speaking a spare, bare-boned language salted with color--a kind of abstract folk speech that is stilted, poetic and moving." --The New York Times

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The last of John Steinbeck’s play-novelettes, Burning Bright was the author’s final attempt after 1937’s Of Mice and Men and 1942’s The Moon is Down to create what he saw as a new, experimental literary form.  Four scenes, four people: the husband who yearns for a son, ignorant of his own sterility; the wife who commits adultery to fulfill her husband’s wish; the father of the child; and the outsider whose actions will affect them all. In this turn on a medieval morality play, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck casts an unwavering light on these four intertwined lives, revealing in their finely drawn circumstances the universal contours of vulnerability and passion, desperation and desire. This edition features an introduction and notes for further reading by Steinbeck scholar John Ditsky. 

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 014303944X
• ISBN 13: 9780143039440
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128