<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[author results for "John Steinbeck"]]></title><description><![CDATA[author results for "John Steinbeck"]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/christchurch/rss/search?query=%22John%20Steinbeck%22&amp;searchType=author&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 19:43:24 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[East of Eden]]></title><description><![CDATA[Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this often sprawling and brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations helplessly re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry between Cain and Abel.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C4452</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C4452</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 1952 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4452037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Novels, 1942-1952]]></title><description><![CDATA[A definitive collection of stories from one of America's greatest writers includes The Moon Is Down, which details the transformation of ordinary life under Nazi rule in an unnamed Scandinavian country under German occupation, as well as Cannery Row, The Pearl, and East of Eden.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1653260</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1653260</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1653260037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Grapes of Wrath]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Grapes of Wrath is a landmark of American literature. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man's fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman's stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation, The Grapes of Wrath is also the story of one Oklahoma family, the Joads, who are driven off their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C2849</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C2849</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 1966 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2849037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Grapes of Wrath]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Grapes of Wrath is a landmark of American literature. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man's fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman's stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation, The Grapes of Wrath is also the story of one Oklahoma family, the Joads, who are driven off their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C989876</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C989876</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/989876037</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tortilla Flat]]></title><description><![CDATA[Adopting the structure and themes of the Arthurian legend, Steinbeck created a "Camelot" on a shabby hillside above Monterey on the California coast and peopled it with a colourful band of knights. As Steinbeck chronicles their thoughts and emotions, temptations and lusts, he spins a tale as compelling, and ultimately as touched by sorrow, as the famous legends of the Round Table.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1703399</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1703399</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 1977 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1703399037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Pearl]]></title><description><![CDATA[For the diver Kino, finding a magnificent pearl means the promise of better life for his impoverished family. His dream blinds him to the greed and suspicions the pearl arouses in him and his neighbors, and even his loving wife cannot temper his obsession or stem the events leading to tragedy. Kino and his wife illustrate the fall from innocence of people who believe that wealth erases all problems.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1573772</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1573772</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1573772037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Dubious Battle]]></title><description><![CDATA[Both a fast-paced story of social unrest and strike, and the tale of one young man's struggle for identity, "In Dubious Battle" is a novel about the apocalyptic violence that breaks out when the masses become the mob. Set in California apple country, a strike by migrant workers spirals out of control, as principled defiance turns into blind fanaticism. Caught in this upheaval is Jim Nolan, a once aimless man who finds himself briefly becoming the leader of the strike before being crushed in its service. "In Dubious Battle" explores and dramatises many of the ideas and themes key to Steinbeck's writing.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C100590</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C100590</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 1974 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/100590037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[To A God Unknown]]></title><description><![CDATA[As his father lies dying, Joseph Wayne decides to trade his Vermont farm for a new life in California. Once established on his ranch, he comes to revere a huge tree as the embodiment of his father's spirit. Joseph's brothers and their wives join him, and their farms prosper. Then one of the brothers, repelled by Joseph's reverence for the tree, cuts it down. Consequences follow -- harsh and severe. In TO A GOD UNKNOWN, one of his earliest novels, Steinbeck uses the Western American experience as a way of exploring man's relationships to his environment -- a theme that would come to characterize much of his later work.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C67196</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C67196</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 1973 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/67196037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of Mice and Men]]></title><description><![CDATA[Streetwise George and his big, childlike friend Lennie are drifters, searching for work in the fields and valleys of California. They have nothing except the clothes on their back, and a hope that one day they'll find a place of their own and live the American dream. But dreams come at a price. Gentle giant Lennie doesn't know his own strength, and when they find work at a ranch he gets into trouble with the boss's daughter-in-law. Trouble so bad that even his protector George may not be able to save him.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C37649</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C37649</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 1937 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/37649037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of Mice and Men]]></title><description><![CDATA[Streetwise George and his big, childlike friend Lennie are drifters, searching for work in the fields and valleys of California. They have nothing except the clothes on their back, and a hope that one day they'll find a place of their own and live the American dream. But dreams come at a price. Gentle giant Lennie doesn't know his own strength, and when they find work at a ranch he gets into trouble with the boss's daughter-in-law. Trouble so bad that even his protector George may not be able to save him.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C984908</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C984908</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/984908037</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Short Novels of John Steinbeck]]></title><description><![CDATA[Collected here for the first time in a deluxe paperback volume are six of John Steinbeck's most widely read and beloved novels. From the tale of commitment, loneliness and hope in Of Mice and Men, to the tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society in Cannery Row, to The Pearl's examination of the fallacy of the American dream, Steinbeck stories of realism, that were imbued with energy and resilience.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1049651</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1049651</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1049651037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Long Valley]]></title><description><![CDATA[This classic collection of short stories serves as the ideal introduction to Steinbeck's work. Set in the idyllic Salinas Valley in California, where simple people farm the land and struggle to find a place for themeselves in the world, these stories reflect many of the concerns key to Steinbeck as a writer; the tensions between town and city, labourers and owners, past and present. Included here are the celebrated tales, The Murderer and The Chrysanthemums.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C66117</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C66117</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 1986 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/66117037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Moon Is Down]]></title><description><![CDATA[In this masterful account set in Norway during World War II, Steinbeck explores the effects of invasion on both the conquered and the conquerors. Occupied by Nazi troops, a small, peaceable town comes face to face with evil imposed from the outside--and betrayal born within the close-knit community.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1838839</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1838839</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 1968 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1838839037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Winter of Our Discontent]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ethan Hawley works as a clerk in the grocery store owned by an Italian immigrant. His wife is restless, and his teenaged children are hungry for the tantalizing material comforts he cannot provide. Then one day, in a moment of moral crisis, Ethan decides to take a holiday from his own scrupulous standards.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C9676</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C9676</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 1961 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/9676037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Travels With Charley in Search of America]]></title><description><![CDATA[In September 1960, at age fifty-eight, the author and his poodle, Charley, and riding in a three-quarter ton pickup truck named Rocinante, embarked on a journey across America. This chronicle of their trip through almost 40 states, meanders from small towns to growing cities to glorious wilderness oases. Providing an intimate look at one of America's most beloved writers in the later years of his life, this is a self-portrait of a man who never wrote an explicit autobiography. Written during a time of upheaval and racial tension in the South, which he witnessed firsthand, this is a stunning evocation of America on the eve of a tumultuous decade.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C976303</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C976303</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/976303037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Pastures of Heaven]]></title><description><![CDATA[Each of these delightful interconnected tales is devoted to a family living in a fertile valley on the outskirts of Monterey, California, and the effects that one particular family has on them all. Steinbeck tackles two important literary traditions here; American naturalism, with its focus on the conflict between natural instincts and the demand to conform to society's norms, and the short story cycle. The tale is set in the heart of 'Steinbeck land', the lush Californian valleys.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1836902</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1836902</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 1995 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1836902037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cannery Row]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amid the sardine canneries, vacant lots, flophouses, and honky-tonks of Monterey, California, Steinbeck assembles a colourful gallery of characters. Among the unforgettable denizens of Cannery Row are Lee Chong, the grocer; Doc, a young marine biologist who surprisingly finds love; and Dora Flood, the flamboyant proprietress of a bordello.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C40214</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C40214</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 1986 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/40214037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cannery Row]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amid the sardine canneries, vacant lots, flophouses, and honky-tonks of Monterey, California, Steinbeck assembles a colourful gallery of characters. Among the unforgettable denizens of Cannery Row are Lee Chong, the grocer; Doc, a young marine biologist who surprisingly finds love; and Dora Flood, the flamboyant proprietress of a bordello.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1306310</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1306310</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1306310037</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Grapes of Wrath]]></title><description><![CDATA['I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.'Shocking and controversial when it was first published, The Grapes of Wrath is Steinbeck's Pultizer Prize-winning epic of the Joad family, forced to travel west from Dust Bowl era Oklahoma in search of the promised land of California. Their story is one of false hopes, thwarted desires and powerlessness, yet out of their struggle Steinbeck created a drama that is both intensely human and majestic in its scale and moral vision.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1830960</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1830960</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1830960037</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[East of Eden]]></title><description><![CDATA['There is only one book to a man, ' Steinbeck wrote of East of Eden, his most ambitious novel. Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel, follows the intertwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons - whose generations hopelessly re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. Here Steinbeck created some of his most memorable characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity; the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love's absence.© John Steinbeck 1952 (P) Penguin Audio 2022]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1577212</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1577212</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1577212037</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cannery Row]]></title><description><![CDATA[ One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' Meet the gamblers, whores, drunks, bums and artists of Cannery Row in Monterey, California, during the Great Depression. They want to throw a party for their friend Doc, so Mack and the boys set about, in their own inimitable way, recruiting everyone in the neighbourhood to the cause. But along the way they can't help but get involved in a little mischief and misadventure. It wouldn't be Cannery Row if it was otherwise, now would it? Packed with a ramshackle joi de vivre, Cannery Row is Steinback's high-spirited tribute to his native California. © John Steinbeck 1945 (P) Penguin Audio 2021]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1577404</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1577404</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1577404037</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of Mice and Men]]></title><description><![CDATA[Streetwise George and his big, childlike friend Lennie are drifters, searching for work in the fields and valleys of California. They have nothing except the clothes on their back, and a hope that one day they'll find a place of their own and live the American dream. But dreams come at a price. Gentle giant Lennie doesn't know his own strength, and when they find work at a ranch he gets into trouble with the boss's daughter-in-law. Trouble so bad that even his protector George may not be able to save him.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1331033</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1331033</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1331033037</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saint Katy the Virgin]]></title><description><![CDATA[Roark is a bad man. His pig is a bad pig. They match in devilish temperament and violent deeds. Roark laughs at a drowned monk; his pig eats its own young and turns a boar sterile. As a spiteful tithe, the pig is given to the local monastery. The pig becomes a Christian. The pig is Saint Katy the Virgin. Fantastical and farcical, this short story parodies religious tropes and stereotypes. With a lively imagination and piercing wit, John Steinbeck delivers an absurd tale that amuses and entertains whilst asking powerful, revealing questions.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1272487</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1272487</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1272487037</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Grapes of Wrath]]></title><description><![CDATA[Set against the backdrop of America's Great Depression and Dust Bowl, a family of farmers from Oklahoma head west in search of work, only to discover thousands like them are also on the move. Following a violent altercation with some locals, they head back on the road with their dream of a promised land in tatters. And life is set to get much worse for the Joads ...]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1313104</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1313104</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1313104037</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[America and Americans, and Selected Nonfiction]]></title><description><![CDATA["There is no writer more quintessentially American than John Steinbeck. More than three decades after his death, he remains one of America's most beloved authors. Yet his nonfiction - the writings in which he spoke directly about his world - have long been overlooked. Now, in celebration of the centennial of his birth, this original collection brings together for the first time more than fifty of Steinbeck's finest essays and journalistic pieces, from his 1936 series of newspaper articles."--BOOK JACKET.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1837622</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1837622</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1837622037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item></channel></rss>