Steinbeck S Street Cannery Row

Author : John Steinbeck
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101659793

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Cannery Row by John Steinbeck Pdf

Steinbeck's tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society, dependant on one another for both physical and emotional survival Published in 1945, Cannery Row focuses on the acceptance of life as it is: both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual. Drawing on his memories of the real inhabitants of Monterey, California, including longtime friend Ed Ricketts, Steinbeck interweaves the stories of Doc, Dora, Mack and his boys, Lee Chong, and the other characters in this world where only the fittest survive, to create a novel that is at once one of his most humorous and poignant works. In her introduction, Susan Shillinglaw shows how the novel expresses, both in style and theme, much that is essentially Steinbeck: “scientific detachment, empathy toward the lonely and depressed…and, at the darkest level…the terror of isolation and nothingness.” For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author : Maxine Knox,Mary Rodriguez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015004873025

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Steinbeck's Street, Cannery Row by Maxine Knox,Mary Rodriguez Pdf

Author : John Steinbeck
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735254312

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Cannery Row by John Steinbeck Pdf

In this tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society, Steinbeck focuses on the acceptance of life as it is—both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual. Drawing on his memories of friends in Monterey, California, he interweaves the stories of Lee, Doc, and Mack, the inhabitants of Cannery Row. What results is a procession of linked vignettes and a novel that is at once Steinbeck’s most humorous and poignant works, filled with human warmth, camaraderie, and love. Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.

Author : Tom Mangelsdorf
Publisher : Western Tanager Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1990-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0934136351

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History of Steinbeck's Cannery Row by Tom Mangelsdorf Pdf

This insightful chronicle of Monterey's Cannery Row delves into the rich history of this fabled waterfront, combining both the development of the sardine industry and the lives of Steinbeck and marine biologist Ed Ricketts. Rare historical photographs and a final chapter on the building of the aquarium are included.

Author : A. L. Lundy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131631777

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Real Life on Cannery Row by A. L. Lundy Pdf

Real Life on Cannery Row provides previously unpublished accounts of the real people, places and events that shaped John Steinbeck's Cannery Row. Author A.L. 'Scrap' Lundy brings each character from the book to life, showcasing the true stories behind the fictional events. Real Life on Cannery Row contains information gathered from recorded history, as well as scores of original interviews with people who knew the real-life "characters" who became Doc, Flora, Mack, et al. Real Life on Cannery Row takes readers behind the scenes of Steinbeck's iconic novel. Book jacket.

Author : John Steinbeck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2382264136

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John Steinbeck Cannery Row by John Steinbeck Pdf

Cannery Row is a novel by American author John Steinbeck, published in 1945.It is set during the Great Depression in Monterey, California, on a street lined with sardine canneries that is known as Cannery Row. The story revolves around the people living there: Lee Chong, the local grocer; Doc, a marine biologist; and Mack, the leader of a group of derelict people. Cannery Row has a simple premise: Mack and his friends are to do something nice for their friend Doc, who has been good to them without asking for reward. Mack hits on the idea that they should throw a thank-you party, and the entire community quickly becomes involved. Unfortunately, the party rages out of control, and Doc's lab and home are ruined-and so is Doc's mood. In an effort to return to Doc's good graces, Mack and the boys decide to throw another party-but make it work this time. A procession of linked vignettes describes the denizens' lives on Cannery Row. These constitute subplots that unfold concurrently with the main plot. Steinbeck revisited these characters and this milieu nine years later in his novel Sweet Thursday.

Author : Michael Kenneth Hemp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038268475

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Cannery Row by Michael Kenneth Hemp Pdf

CANNERY ROW: THE HISTORY OF OLD OCEAN VIEW AVENUE is that & much more! Six years of intensive oral history research as Executive Director & Historian of the Cannery Row Foundation, interviewing the street's surviving cannery workers, residents, business people, the skippers & fishermen in Monterey's sardine fishing fleet-- & friends, family & acquaintances of John Steinbeck-- enabled the author to capture & preserve the Monterey's sardine era & the street made world famous by John Steinbeck's "fiction." The perfect companion to Steinbeck's Cannery Row literature, this book's abundant archival photographs & information bring the street alive as it was when Steinbeck stalked it. This unique oral-history-based account of the life & times of Americas' most famous street includes a full, two page, detailed & fully indexed historical map-guide to Cannery Row, its historical sites, original cannery locations-- & its actual Steinbeck locales-- making this book an indispensable field guide to one of America's most colorful historical & literary & ecological locations.

Author : Lindsay Hatton
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698407503

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Monterey Bay by Lindsay Hatton Pdf

A beautiful debut set around the creation of the world-famous Monterey Bay Aquarium--and the last days of John Steinbeck's Cannery Row In 1940, fifteen year-old Margot Fiske arrives on the shores of Monterey Bay with her eccentric entrepreneur father. Margot has been her father's apprentice all over the world, until an accident in Monterey's tide pools drives them apart and plunges her head-first into the mayhem of John Steinbeck's Cannery Row. Steinbeck is hiding out from his burgeoning fame at the raucous lab of Ed Ricketts, the biologist known as Doc in Cannery Row. Ricketts, a charismatic bohemian, quickly becomes the object of Margot's fascination. Despite Steinbeck's protests and her father's misgivings, she wrangles a job as Ricketts's sketch artist and begins drawing the strange and wonderful sea creatures he pulls from the waters of the bay. Unbeknownst to Margot, her father is also working with Ricketts. He is soliciting the biologist's advice on his most ambitious and controversial project to date: the transformation of the Row's largest cannery into an aquarium. When Margot begins an affair with Ricketts, she sets in motion a chain of events that will affect not just the two of them, but the future of Monterey as well. Alternating between past and present, Monterey Bay explores histories both imagined and actual to create an unforgettable portrait of an exceptional woman, a world-famous aquarium, and the beloved town they both call home.

Author : John Steinbeck
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781440635496

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Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck Pdf

A Penguin Classic In Monterey, on the California coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday, which is one of those days that are just naturally bad. Returning to the scene of Cannery Row—the weedy lots and junk heaps and flophouses of Monterey, John Steinbeck once more brings to life the denizens of a netherworld of laughter and tears—from Doc, based on Steinbeck’s lifelong friend Ed Ricketts, to Fauna, new headmistress of the local brothel, to Hazel, a bum whose mother must have wanted a daughter. This Penguin Classics edition features an introduction and notes by Robert DeMott. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Edward Flanders Ricketts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Animal behavior
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030012515104

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Between Pacific tides; an account of the habits and habitats of some five hundred of the common, conspicuous seashore invertebrates on the Pacific Coast Between Sitka, Alaska, and northern Mexico by Edward Flanders Ricketts Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Monthly Review Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Poetry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037024044

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All the Heroes are Dead by Anonim Pdf

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Author : John Steinbeck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Cannery Row by John Steinbeck Pdf

Author : Michael Kenneth Hemp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0941425053

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CANNERY ROW by Michael Kenneth Hemp Pdf

3rd Edition of CANNERY ROW, The History of John Steinbecks Old Ocean View Avenue, first published in 1986, is the acclaimed history of Monterey's famous sardine fishing and canning industry by Cannery Row historian and 1983 founder of the Cannery Row Foundation, Michael Kenneth Hemp. 200 restored archival photographs from the Pat Hathaway Collection illustrate the origins and growth of Montereys historic fishing and canning industry on Ocean View Avenue, known world-wide by its nickname, Cannery Row, made famous by John Steinbeck's 1945 novel. It contains new and personal Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts photos and information as well as the newly added summation of the history of the Monterey sardine era on Cannery Row. This book has been called an indispensable companion read to John Steinbecks Cannery Row works by the Steinbeck Review. The sociological, industrial, literary, and ecological history of Cannery Row is supported by a detailed historical map and index to the Old Row.

Author : John Steinbeck,Jessica Hische
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143125211

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Cannery Row by John Steinbeck,Jessica Hische Pdf

It all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible and hardcover editions, each with a type cover showcasing a gorgeously illustrated letter of the alphabet. In a design collaboration between Jessica Hische and Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley, the series features unique cover art by Hische, a superstar in the world of type design and illustration, whose work has appeared everywhere from Tiffany & Co. to Wes Anderson's recent film Moonrise Kingdom to Penguin's own bestsellers Committed and Rules of Civility. With exclusive designs that have never before appeared on Hische's hugely popular Daily Drop Cap blog, the Penguin Drop Caps series debuted with an 'A' for Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, a 'B' for Charlotte Brönte's Jane Eyre, and a 'C' for Willa Cather's My Ántonia. It continues with more perennial classics, perfect to give as elegant gifts or to showcase on your own shelves. S is for Steinbeck. Unburdened by the material necessities of the more fortunate, the denizens of Cannery Row discover rewards unknown in more traditional society. Henry the painter sorts through junk lots for pieces of wood to incorporate into the boat he is building, while the girls from Dora Flood’s bordello venture out now and then to enjoy a bit of sunshine. Lee Chong stocks his grocery with almost anything a man could want, and Doc, a young marine biologist who ministers to sick puppies and unhappy souls, unexpectedly finds true love. Cannery Row is just a few blocks long, but the story it harbors is suffused with warmth, understanding, and a great fund of human values. First published in 1945, and drawn from Steinbeck's memories of real inhabitants of Monterey, California, Cannery Row focuses on the acceptance of life as it is—both the loneliness of the individual and the exuberance of community.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Cannery Row (Monterey, Calif.)
ISBN : UCSC:32106012687049

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Cannery Row by Anonim Pdf