Still need to grab a copy? Here’s the Penguin classics edition and here’s the anniversary edition via our page. It’s about family: fathers and sons, brothers, lovers. It captures a version of America long since forgotten, a place and time of great beauty and brutality, that can help us understand our country’s soul in a more profound way. It’s full of Biblical and mythical allusions throughout, but not in that stuffy, academic, pedantic sort of way. Steinbeck’s prose is bewitching and un-yielding at the same time. It features one of the best villains ever created. East of Eden was considered by Steinbeck to be his magnum opus, and its epic scope and memorable characters, exploring universal themes of love and identity, ensure it. Need some convincing? Here are a few reasons this book is worth reading: Clothbound Classics 3 for £33 Penguin English Library 5 for £25 Penguin Tote Bags Penguin Prints From £20 Isokon Penguin Donkey Childrens Gifts Toggle submenu. It’s an essential part of our country’s literary canon and we can’t wait to dig in. Our next subscriber-exclusive book here at Close Reads HQ is going to be Steinbeck’s East of Eden, one of the great novels in American lit by one of America’s most renowned writers.
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