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Hardcover. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. SUPERB: SEMINAL: NEW LOA hardcover First Edition (orig. 1994) First Printing, NEW cream laminate-paper-over-boards slip-case w/ double gilt-rule-bordered front panel displaying gilt-stamped LOA logo at top center, 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 Ecusta Nyalite archival paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.18", 0.58 kg, 909 pp. Slipcase: 5.36" x 8.50" x 1.26", 0.68 kg * CONTENTS: John Steinbeck: Novels and Stories, 1932-1937: The Pastures of Heaven (1), To a God Unknown (171), Tortilla Flat (369), In Dubious Battle (529), Of Mice and Men (795); Chronology (881), Notes on the Texts (901), Notes (904) * ABOUT THE BOOK: For the first time in one volume, the LOA presents the early California writings of one of America's greatest novelists, including the seminal works, "Tortilla Flat" & "Of Mice & Men", tracing his early growth & evolution: From the very start of his career, John Steinbeck evoked the landscape & people of central California w/ lyrical intensity & unflinching frankness. Steinbeck's early writings express his abiding concerns for community, social justice, & the elemental connection between nature & human society. In prose that blends the vernacular & the incantatory, the local & the mythic, these 5 works chart Steinbeck's evolution into one of the greatest & most enduring popular of American novelists. "The Pastures of Heaven" (1932), a collection of interrelated stories, delineates the troubled inner lives & sometimes disastrous fates of families living in a seemingly tranquil California valley. The surface realism of Steinbeck's first mature work is enriched by hints of uncanny forces at work beneath. "Deep down it's mine, right to the center of the world," says Salinas Valley farmer Joseph Wayne about his land in John Steinbeck's "To a God Unknown" (1933). A sense of primeval magic dominates the novel as the farmer reverts to pagan nature worship & begins a tortuous journey toward catastrophe & ultimate understanding. Steinbeck's sympathetic depiction of the raffish "paisons" of "Tortilla Flat" (1935), a ramshackle district above Monterey, first won him popular attention. The Flat's tenderhearted, resourceful, mildly corrupt, over-optimistic characters are a triumph of life-affirming humor. "In Dubious Battle" (1936) plunges into the political struggle of the 1930s & paints a vigorous fresco of a migrant fruit-pickers' strike. Anticipating the collective portraiture of "The Grapes of Wrath", Steinbeck poignantly traces the surges and shifts of group behavior. W/ "Of Mice & Men" (1937), Steinbeck secured his status as one of the most influential American writers. Lennie & George, itinerant farmhands held together in the face of deprivation only by the frailest of dreams, have long since passed into American mythology. This novel, which Steinbeck called "such a simple little thing," is now recognized as a masterpiece of concentrated emotional power. 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).

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: 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 & showing 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).