EAST OF EDEN - John Steinbeck Read by Richard Poe {FerraBit} torrent

EAST OF EDEN by John Steinbeck (1952)

Read by . .: Richard Poe
Publisher .: Recorded Books (2002) (RB# C2377)
ISBN . . . : ISBN-10: 1402566484; ISBN-13: 978-1402566486
Format . . : MP3. From 22 CD's (25 hours), 452 tracks, 1 GB.
Bitrate . .: ~95 kbps (iTunes 8, VBR, mono, 44kHz)
Genre . . .: Classic, Fiction
Unabridged : Yes indeedy

It's a classic. It's an epic. It's Steinbeck.

Book in html & .lit included - ESL & reference friendly (sort of).

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Cheers, FerraBit
May 2009

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Muller

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From Wiki:
John Steinbeck was an American writer, who wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939, and the novella Of Mice and Men, in 1937. In all, he wrote twenty-five books, including sixteen novels, six non-fiction books and several collections of short stories. In 1962 Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Often described as Steinbeck's most ambitious novel, East of Eden brings to life the intricate details of two families, the
Trasks and the Hamiltons, and their interwoven stories. The novel was originally addressed to Steinbeck's young sons, Thom and John (then 6 and 4 respectively). Steinbeck wanted to describe the Salinas Valley for them in detail: the sights, sounds, smells, and colors.

The Hamilton family in the novel is said to be based on the real-life family of Samuel Hamilton, Steinbeck's maternal grandfather. A young John Steinbeck also appears briefly in the novel as a minor character.

According to his last wife Elaine, he considered this to be a requiem for himself—his greatest novel ever. Steinbeck stated about East of Eden: "It has everything in it I have been able to learn about my craft or profession in all these years." He further claimed: "I think everything else I have written has been, in a sense, practice for this."
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From Recorded Books:
Written in his later years, Steinbeck’s novel follows the intertwined
affairs of two families in southern California. As the saga unfolds,
it also becomes a retelling of two powerful stories from Genesis: the
fall of Adam and Eve, and the rivalry of Cain and Abel. Steinbeck crafted
East of Eden as a profound allegory and considered it, besides Grapes
of Wrath (RB# 95707), his most important work.
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Audie Award Winner
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