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East of Eden

Name: East of Eden
SKU: EED
Price: 115 USD
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Author: John Steinbeck

US$115

Illustrated by Edward Kinsella

Introduced By Michael Dirda

John Steinbeck’s generational epic, East of Eden, introduced by Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Dirda and illustrated by award-winning artist Edward Kinsella, was selected as Folio’s 2017 Reader’s Choice for Fiction.

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Book Details

Production DetailsBound in green cloth blocked in silver with a design by the artist
Top edge silver gilding
Green endleaves
Green slipcase printed with a snake design in silver

Dimensions10 inches × 6¾ inches (25.4 × 17.1 cm)

FontTypeset in Dante

Pages632

AuthorJohn Steinbeck

Illustrated byEdward Kinsella

IllustrationFrontispiece and 10 illustrations

Publication Date2017

Editor's Notes

‘It has everything I have been able to learn about my art or craft or profession in all these years,’ wrote John Steinbeck of East of Eden, the novel he considered his magnum opus. Coolly received when it was first published in 1952, it has grown in stature and popularity ever since, and is now recognised as the author’s most ambitious and accomplished work. This magnificent Folio book, published to celebrate the winner of Folio’s 2017 Readers’ Choice Fiction Competition, and produced with the highest design and production values, is a fitting testament to Steinbeck’s remarkable achievement.

Synopsis

Set in California’s Salinas Valley, East of Eden is a sweeping tale of two families bound by love, rivalry and the weight of inheritance. As the Trasks and the Hamiltons navigate generations of hope and heartbreak, Steinbeck returns to an ancient question: are we shaped by fate, or do we choose our own path? Rich in character and alive with feeling, this is a story of good and evil, of fallibility and forgiveness – and of what it means, ultimately, to be human.

John Steinbeck (1902–68) is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the 20th century. During the 1930s, his works included The Red Pony (1937), The Pastures of Heaven (1932), Tortilla Flat (1935), In Dubious Battle (1936) and Of Mice and Men (1937, Folio 2018). The Grapes of Wrath (1939; Folio 1998, 2026) earned him a Pulitzer Prize. In 1962, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Michael Dirda is a Pulitzer Prize-winning literary journalist, a former books columnist for the Washington Post, and the author of five collections of essays: Readings (2000), Bound to Please (2005), Book by Book (2006), Classics for Pleasure (2007) and Browsings (2015). He has also written the memoir An Open Book (2003) and On Conan Doyle (2012), which received an Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America. His introductions for The Folio Society include The Great Gatsby (2013), Dune (2016), East of Eden (2017), Atlas Shrugged (2018), Cat's Cradle (2022), Weird Tales (2024), A Canticle for Leibowitz (2024) and Moby-Dick (2026).

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