East of Eden
East of Eden: in his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined d...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
The Viking Press,
1952
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| Edition: | Autographed first edition |
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| Summary: | East of Eden: in his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families -- the Trasks and the Hamiltons -- whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. Adam Trask came to California from the East to farm and raise his family on the new rich land. But the birth of his twins, Cal and Aaron, brings his wife to the brink of madness, and Adam is left alone to raise his boys to manhood. One boy thrives, nurtured by the love of all those around him; the other grows up in loneliness, enveloped by a mysterious darkness This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks' and the Hamilton's--whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. The story of two brothers, Aron is a clean-cut model student, engaged to be married, the pride of his hardworking father. Cal is a rebellious loner, sternly rejected by his father |
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| Item Description: | Presentation copy to Ned Herzog with inscription by the author Bound in green cloth; issued in a glassine wrapper and a publisher's brown paperboard case First ed. One of 1,500 copies, signed Green cloth boards. Front cover stamped in gilt; spine stamped in gilt on brown background and enclosed in gilt rule. All edges stained terra-cotta and trimmed. Housed in brown paperboard case This WorldCat-derived record is shareable under Open Data Commons ODC-BY, with attribution to OCLC Title page printed in black and red With half-title "First published by The Viking Press in September 1952. Published on the same day in the Dominion of Canada by The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited" "First published by The Viking Press in September 1952." "First published by the Viking Press in September 1952." "This autographed first edition of East of Eden is limited to fifteen hundred copies, of which seven hundred and fifty are for private distribution." |
| Physical Description: | 4 p.l., 3-602 p. ; 22 cm 4 p.l., 602 p 24 cm. 602 p 22 cm. 602 p 24 cm. 602 p 602 p. ; 22 cm 602 pages ; 21 cm 602 pages ; 22 cm 602 pages ; 24 cm 8 unnumbered pages, 602 pages ; 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 0140186395 0142004235 0670287385 9780140186390 9780142004234 9780670287383 |