STEINBECK John - East of Eden. 1-2 complete. 1st ed.

Author: STEINBECK John

Title: East of Eden, 1-2 set

• Place of publication: Warsaw
• Year of publication: 1963
• Publisher: PIW
• Number of pages: 354, [2]; 417, [3].
• Illustrations, maps: ---
• Size: 19.5 cm
• Binding: publisher's soft
• Condition: good+, slight folds of cover of vol.2, previous owner's signature
• ISBN: ---

Description:

1st edition in Polish. Translated by Bronislaw Zielinski. The cover was designed by Aleksander Stefanowski. An edition of 10,250 copies.

East of Eden - a work by American Nobel laureate John Steinbeck, first published in September 1952, ten years before Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature, constituting the writer's magnum opus.

It is his longest work, and also his most ambitious and personal. It is a completely new, large-scale panorama of California and the lives of its people. It seems that, as in The Grapes of Wrath, the author has given readers a work of great importance, and this is due to the writer's deep commitment to the subject. California is John Steinbeck's home state. In the novel he recreated Salinas, the city of his youth, and its surroundings, picturesque and fertile in the rainy years, sultry and barren in periods of drought, and captured portraits of people he knew and was close to. He portrayed California as his own native paradise for emigrants streaming in from the eastern states.