Of Men and Their Making: The Selected Nonfiction of John Steinbeck - Softcover
Paperback. Pub Date :2003-07-03 Pages: 448 Language: English Publisher: Penguin Classics Steinbecks writing was fuelled by a need to observe things firsthand. whether as a journalist or novelist. The huge success of THE GRAPES OF WRATH enabled him to travel the world. ceaselessly writing about the great events of each decade. This collection brings together the greatest of those dispatches - from countries as diverse as Vietnam. Britain. Morocco and Italy. In addition. it reproduces America and the Americans. a gripping account of the US in the 1960s based on Steinbecks observations on racism. moral decline & the environment.The extremely enjoyable book makes an important point about Steinbecks oeuvre. showing just how important journalism was to his career as a writer.
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Steinbeck's writing was fuelled by a need to observe things firsthand, whether as a journalist or novelist. The huge success of "The Grapes of Wrath" enabled him to travel the world, ceaselessly writing about the great events of each decade. This collection brings together the greatest of those dispatches - from countries as diverse as Vietnam, Britain, Morocco and Italy. In addition, it reproduces 'America and the Americans', a gripping account of the US in the 1960s based on Steinbeck's observations on racism, moral decline & the environment. The extremely enjoyable book makes an important point about Steinbeck's oeuvre, showing just how important journalism was to his career as a writer.
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John Steinbeck (1902-1978) is one of the greatest US writers of the 20th century and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. All his writings are available from Penguin
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- PublisherPenguin Classics
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0141187239
- ISBN 13 9780141187235
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages448
- EditorBenson Jackson J., Shillinglaw Susan
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