East of Eden
by John Steinbeck
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Author: John SteinbeckEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2002-02-05
ISBN: 0142000655
Number of pages: 601
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Book Review: I fell in love.
Summary: 5 Stars
I first read "East of Eden" and three other books by Steinbeck when I was in my twenties. I have to admit that, back then, I wasn't taken with the man and his storytelling. I am now about the age that Steinbeck was when he wrote "East of Eden." Today I have enough life experiences under my belt to truly appreciate and hear what the man had to say. Today I have fallen in love with Steinbeck.
"East of Eden" has been reviewed to death over the years, so I will limit my comments to a few special notations that I made. As I read "East of Eden" it struck me that Steinbeck's background as a journalist and his curiosity about human behavior in general molded him into an excellent armchair psychologist. Indeed in East of Eden, Samuel Hamilton recommends William Jame's voluminous "The Principles of Psychology" to his son Joe. I also wondered if Steinbeck the journalist "borrowed" from the Lizzie Borden patricide case as he wrote of the methodical premeditation of Cathy's first murders. Aside from the sociopathic Cathy, Steinbeck's characters impressed me as truly beloved by their author. In fact, Steinbeck seems to me a deep lover of humankind with all of its flaws and struggles. Unlike many authors who seem detached or put off by their own characters, Steinbeck reveals himself as forgiving and understanding of his characters' foibles and craziness. I love him for that.
Steinbeck summed up this great story best when Lee tells Samuel: "And I here make a rule - a great and lasting story is about everyone or it will not last. The strange and foreign is not interesting - only the deeply personal and familiar." Perhaps that is why I needed to compile that large portfolio of life experiences in order to belatedly fall in love with Steinbeck. And that is no doubt why "East of Eden" will endure as a great and lasting story.
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Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America's 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 readers-and to the many who revisit them again and again.General Books
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