In 1962, Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature. In all, he wrote twenty-five books, including sixteen novels, six non-fiction books and several collections of short stories. He wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939, and the novella, Of Mice and Men, published in 1937. 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. 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. We have begun publishing his many works for the first time as blackspine Penguin Classics featuring eye-catching, newly commissioned art. Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America's greatest writers and cultural figures. WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE. Packed with invention and joie de vivre, Cannery Row is Steinbeck's high-spirited tribute to his native California. Everybody wants to do something nice for Doc: the trouble is, he always ends up paying. Doc, who owns the laboratory, is the fount of all generosity and wisdom. Dora, of the flaming orange hair and taste for Nile green dresses, runs the brothel with clockwork efficiency. Lee Chong, the astute owner of the fantastically well-stocked grocery store, is also the proprietor of the Palace Flophouse that Mack and his troupe of good-natured 'boys' call home.

In the din and stink that is Cannery Row a colourful bend of misfits - gamblers, whores, drunks, bums, and artists - survive side by side in a jumble of adventure and mischief.

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