East of Eden

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1952 · John Steinbeck

Genresfamily saga

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East of Eden is a 1952 family saga novel by American author and Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck. Many regard the work as Steinbeck's most ambitious novel, and Steinbeck himself considered it his magnum opus. Steinbeck said of East of Eden, "It has everything in it I have been able to learn about my craft or profession in all these years"; the author later said, "I think everything else I have written has been, in a sense, practice for this." Steinbeck originally addressed the novel to his young sons, Thom and John. Steinbeck wanted to describe the sights, sounds, smells, and colors of the Salinas Valley for them in detail.

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Type: Book
Release date: September 1, 1952
Genres: family saga
Created by: John Steinbeck
Countries: United States