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Escrita justo despues de Las uvas de la ira, esta novela narra el accidentado viaje de un desastrado autobús rural entre las poblaciones de Rebel Corners y San Juan de la Cruz, en California, al termino de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Se convierte en un magistral retrato de personajes y en un acerado estudio sobre los problemas centrales de todos los hombres en todas las epocas: la familia, el sexo, el amor, las ambiciones, las frustraciones y los anhelos… Lejos del sentimentalismo y la autocomplacencia, es un viaje interior hacia el corazon de unos viajeros perdidos en la decepcion del sueño americano. El autobus perdido contiene algunos de los grandes temas clasicos dentro de la obra narrativa del premio Nobel de Literatura John Steinbeck.

A sad and beautiful story about a Mexican-Indian diver who finds the greatest pearl in the world, but loses his happiness.

Una petita gran obra del Premi Nobel nord-americà John Steinbeck. Jody és un nen de deu anys que viu en un ranxo a la vall de Salinas, a Califòrnia. Apassionat dels cavalls, la vida li canvia quan el

Working as an enforcer in London''s criminal underworld brought Dan Shaper to the edge of a breakdown. Now he''s a private investigator, kept perilously afloat by a growing cocktail of drugs. He needs to straighten-up and rebuild his life, but instead gets the attention of his old gangland masters and a job-offer from Mr George Glass. The elderly eccentric claims to be a New Age Messiah, but now needs a saviour of his own. He''s been marked for murder.Adrift amidst liars and thugs, Shaper must push his capsizing mind to its limits: stalked not only by a unique and terrifying killer, but by the ghosts of his own brutal past.

This moving parable of wealth and the evil it can bring is based on a Mexican folktale. The simple life of Kino, a pearl fisher, changes for ever when he finds a great pearl, a pearl as large as a seagull's egg. The story is of the finding of the pearl, the dreams it represents and its loss. Kino is blind to the greed, fear and even violence the pearl arouses in his neighbours - and in himself - and the promise of great wealth and a better life for Kino and his family brings nothing but misfortune and enemies

'"Cannery Row in Monterey in California" is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, nostalgia, and a dream". 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?

En el apogeo del esfuerzo bélico estadounidense, la aviación norteamericana encargó a John Steinbeck que escribiera Bombs Away, un informe esencial en tiempo de guerra y un relato verídico de sus experiencias con las tripulaciones de bombarderos durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Ahora, por primera vez desde su publicacion inicial, presentamos esta edicion exclusiva de la introduccion a la entonces naciente aviacion, el corazon del poder aereo estadounidense, que Steinbeck describio como el mejor equipo del mundo.El relato comienza con una breve historia de las fuerzas aereas, su programa de entrenamiento y su motivacion contra la maquinaria belica de Alemania, Italia y Japon. Al estar concebido como un libro de propaganda, describe las ideologias que nos llevaron a esa guerra, y el increible patriotismo unificado combinado con el ardor y la devocion del ejercito que crearon una nueva rama de lo militar y del tipo de guerra en menos de dos años. En sus descripciones de las tripulaciones de los bombarderos, el libro tampoco escatima elogios a los padres de los soldados mas insignes de la nacion.

'A red pony colt was looking at him out of the stall. Its tense ears were forward and a light of disobedience was in its eyes. Its coat was rough and thick as an Airedale's fur and its mane was long and tangled'. Jody Tiflin is a ten-year-old boy, living on his father's ranch. One day his father brings home a small pony. He's Jody's, if the boy will learn to feed, clean, stable and care for him. But Jody learns, through the colt, and through his other adventures on the ranch, that with responsibility can come sacrifice and pain. Joy may swiftly turn to tragedy. And he also discover that the simplicities of childhood must eventually turn into the complications of adulthood. "The Red Pony" is Steinbeck's brilliant, and sometimes brutal, celebration of adolescence

Kino is a desperately poor Mexican-pearl diver. But when he finds 'The Pearl of the World' he believes that his life will be magically transformed. Obsessed by his dreams, Kino is blind to the greed, fear and even violence the pearl arouses in his neighbours - and himself. This is a haunting and timeless tale of wealth and the evil it can bring.

Etats-Unis, années 1930. Lennie et George, deux ouvriers agricoles, traversent la Californie et s'arrêtent dans un ranch pour y travailler. Ils n'ont qu'un rêve : réunir assez d'argent pour posséder

Kino finds a large pearl, which he thinks will save his family from poverty. But the pearl brings misfortune and changes the life of the family forever.

“Una de las novelas esenciales de Steinbeck.” NICK HORNBY.“En la escritura de Steinbeck siempre hay algo sorprendentemente mágico.” CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT, THE NEW YORK TIMES.En las colinas de Mon