1976
Steinbeck’s first posthumously published work. In his reinterpretation of seven tales from Malory completed in 1959 Steinbeck attempts to render Malory “…into a modern English, while…trying to recreate a rhythm and tone…” similar to the original Middle English.
1950
A play in novelette form presenting the dilemma of a heredity possessed man who discovers he is sterile and must accept another man’s child as his own.
1945
Steinbeck captures the characters and atmosphere of the row of shacks along the Monterey shoreline now known as Cannery Row.
1929
A tale which traces Henry Morgan’s life from boyhood on the Welsh glens, to his death as lieutenant governor of Jamaica.
1952
The saga of two American families, the Trasks and the Hamiltons, Steinbeck’s own Fiction forebears. The scene is chiefly Salinas from the turn of the century through World War I.
1939
Steinbeck’s epic account of the migration of sharecroppers from the Dust Bowl to the mirage of a free and happy life in California.
1936
A labor and strike novel set in the California fruit country, as seen through the eyes of a radical sympathizer.
1938
Thirteen short stories which portray life in the Salinas Valley.
1942
One of Steinbeck’s shorter novels; describes the occupation of a small unnamed mining town by an unidentified army.
1937
The Salinas Valley is the setting for this tale of two drifting ranch hands who dream of a piece of land of their own.
1932
A series of short stories relating incidents in the lives of a group of people living in a secluded valley in California, Las Pasturas del Cielo.
1947
A retelling of an old Mexican folktale involving the discovery of a great pearl and the ensuing misfortune of the fisherman who found it.
1933
A heartbreaking true picture of boyhood on a small Salinas Valley ranch.
1957
A satirical account of an unsuccessful French attempt at reviving the monarchy with a descendent of Charlemagne.
1954
In this comic, bawdy tale Steinbeck revisits several characters from Cannery Row after World War II.
1933
A symbolic and mystical novel of Joseph Wayne and his family and their new land in the fertile hills of California.
1935
Set in a tumble-down-section of Monterey, Steinbeck’s humorous novel portrays the vagabond-type existence and exploits of Danny and his friends.
1986
Contains “His Father,” “The Summer Before,” “How Edith McGillcuddy Met R.L. Stevenson,” “Reunion at the quiet Hotel,” “The Miracle of Tepayac,” “The Gifts of Iban,” and “The Time the Wolves Ate the Vice-Principal.”
1947
A “Grand Hotel” type novel in which a group of strangers are stranded overnight at a roadside gas station and lunchroom in California.
1961
Through the life of a New England patrician family, the author portrays some of the shoddy attitudes toward honesty and success. The major theme of the novel is the loss of integrity in our world and the decline in our standards of personal, business, and political morality.