Summary
John Steinbeck: East of Paradise
Set in the rich valley of the Salinas River in California, this powerful and brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families - Trask and Hamilton - whose generations helplessly repeat the mistakes of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. In this novel, Steinbeck created some of his most memorable characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the deadly consequences of the absence of love. *** \"East of Paradise\" is the most ambitious novel of the American Nobel laureate John Steinebeck (1902-1968), known for the novels \"Fruits of Wrath\", \"Tortilla Flat\", \"The Winter of Our Discontent", \"The Stray Bus\", and the longer stories \"Of Mice and Men\" and \"The Pearl". Based on this novel, the famous American director Elia Kazan made a film of the same name in 1955, in which James Dean and Julie Harris played the main roles. (KS6)
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