East of Eden

One of Steinbeck's bestselling titles in Penguin Modern Classics, now repackaged in the series' new look, with stunning cover photography by the renowned American photographer, Walker Evans.There is no more impressive writer on either side of the Atlantic - Time and TideSteinbeck remains amongst our bestselling authors in PMC.Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. His complete works will be published in Penguin Modern Classics.'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.