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A Near Fine copy of the book in Very Good+ dust jacket. Book clean and unmarked. Jacket with the spine a bit toned and some scuffs along the lower spine fold. A few short closed tears along the edges, otherwise a fairly tidy example. Steinbeck s classic tale of the Trask and Hamilton families set in the Salinas Valley. The Nobel Prize winning writer considered this his greatest work and, in fact, a young Steinbeck actually makes a small appearance in the novel as a character. East of Eden was a bestseller and became extremely popular upon its release. Steinbeck wrote a friend: "I am getting flocks of letters [ . . .] People write as though it were their book." The popularity of the book would undergo a resurgence in 2003, when it was an Oprah s Book Club pick. More famously, the book has been adapted into a 1955 film, directed by Elia Kazan and featuring James Dean in one of his few starring roles. The movie appears on AFI s list of the Top 400 American Films. "But no one can doubt its merits as the work of a great storyteller. It compels and holds the reader s fascinated attention from the first chapter to the last" (Contemporary review in the Washington Post). Near Fine in Very Good + dust jacket.

East of Eden is a novel by American author John Steinbeck. Published in September 1952, it is a saga telling the story of two families—the Trasks and the Hamiltons—with a particular focus on the life of Adam Trask, his twin sons Caleb and Aron, and their complex relationship with each other and their father. The novel explores themes of depravity, beneficence, love, and redemption, and it vividly captures the rural Salinas Valley in California at the turn of the 20th century. Steinbeck considered 'East of Eden' to be his magnum opus.