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John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath and Other Writings 1936-1941: The Long Valley, The Grapes of Wrath, The Log from the Sea of Cortez; Appendix: The Harvest Gypsies, Starvation Under the Orange Trees
Steinbeck, John; Robert DeMott wrote the notes & Elaine A. Steinbeck was special consultant for this volume.
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Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. SUPERB: SEMINAL: COLLECTIBLE: NEW LOA hardcover First Edition (orig. 1994) First Printing, NEW mylar-protected LOA jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners handsomely presenting titles on front panel beneath a photo-portrait of John Steinbeck at top-right & showi…ng orig. $35.00 pub. price at bottom-right inside-front flyleaf, NEW silk-finish sand-tan Brillianta linen-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE distinctive white-on-tan LOA-patterned card-stock end-papers, NEW Smyth-sewn binding w/ tight signatures & tan-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps & silk tan page-marker ribbon, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB acid-free lightweight opaque archival paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.28", 0.68 kg, 1067 pp. * CONTENTS: John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath and Other Writings 1936-1941: The Long Valley (1), The Grapes of Wrath (207), The Log from the Sea of Cortez (693); Appendix: The Harvest Gypsies (991), Starvation Under the Orange Trees (1023); Chronology (1031), Note on the Texts (1051), Notes (1057) * ABOUT THE BOOK: This superb 2nd volume in the authoritative 4-volume LOA edition of John Steinbeck contains a newly researched chronology, notes, & an essay on textual selection. The volume features the authoritative LOA edition of Steinbeck's Pulitzer-Prize winning masterpiece "The Grapes of Wrath" in a newly corrected text based on the author's manuscript, typescript, & galleys. Written in an incredibly compressed 5-month period, the novel had an electrifying impact upon publication in 1939, unleashing a political storm w/ its vision of America's dispossessed struggling for survival. It continues to exert a powerful influence on American culture, & has inspired artists as diverse as John Ford, Woody Guthrie, & Bruce Springsteen. Tracing the journey of the Joad family from the dust bowl of Oklahoma to the migrant camps of California, Steinbeck creates an American epic, spacious, impassioned, & pulsating w/ the rhythms of living speech. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize & has since sold millions of copies worldwide. This text of "The Grapes of Wrath" has been newly edited based on Steinbeck's manuscript, typescript, & proofs. Many errors have been corrected, & words omitted or misconstrued by his typist have been restored. In addition, "The Harvest Gypsies", his 1936 investigative report on migrant workers, which laid the groundwork for the novel, is included as an appendix. "The Long Valley" (1938) displays Steinbeck's brilliance as a writer of short stories, including such classics as "The Chrysanthemums", "The White Quail", "Flight", & "The Red Pony". Set in the Salinas Valley landscape that was Steinbeck's enduring inspiration, the stories explore moments of fear, tenderness, isolation, & violence w/ poetic intensity. "The Log from the Sea of Cortez", an account of the 1940 marine biological expedition in which Steinbeck participated w/ his close friend Ed Ricketts, is a unique blend of science, philosophy, & adventure, as well as one of Steinbeck's most revealing expositions of his core beliefs. First published in 1941 as part of the collaborative volume "Sea of Cortez", Steinbeck's narrative was reissued separately a decade later, augmented by the moving tribute "About Ed Ricketts". * ABOUT THE EDITOR: ROBERT DEMOTT is the Edwin & Ruth Kennedy Distinguished Professor at Ohio University & the author of "Steinbeck". * THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as "the most important book-publishing project in the nation's history" (Newsweek), this acclaimed series is restoring America's literary heritage in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republic).
