The Pastures of Heaven
- ISBN13: 9780140187489
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America’s greatest writers and cultural figures. We have begun publishing his many works for the first time as blackspine Penguin Classics featuring eye-catching, newly commissioned art. This season we continue with the seven spectacular and influential books East of Eden, Cannery Row, In Dubious Battle, The Long Valley, The Moon Is Down, The Pastures of Heaven, and Tortilla Flat. Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readers—and to the many who revisit them again and again…. More >>
steinbeck captures the essence of the areas of california that he so much likes to descibe–and all the characters often somewhat described in other novels are here as well
Rating: 4 / 5
This book is Steinbeck at his finest. The short stories are tied together, but each stands gloriously on its own. I have found that I prefer his “lesser” works, and this one is my favorite. His use of language and his character development are perfection. Each story is a detailed and solid vignette of life behind the walls we erect. Read this book!
Rating: 5 / 5
The Pastures of Heaven is a collected of interrelated stories about a California valley nicknamed Pastures of Heaven. The stories are interesting and showglimpses of Steinbecks later genius but there lacks the depth of character his better works and his descriptive powers also fall short of the great works to come. It is a good early work and many novelist never reached the level of this book but I can only give it three stars especially in the context of his overall work and his talent
Rating: 3 / 5
Steinbeck started with this series of short stories. The farming families built up great lives, successful lives in a beautiful valley. Steinbeck goes through great lengths to show that this valley is a paradise lost, an Eden. Then he gets to the people in the valley, their lives, the true depths of the what the valley’s inhabitants live with. This examination of the Salinas Valley, its toilers, hypocrits, inhabitants all in one, is Steinbeck’s first. He underlines all the themes his later works will take, all the form, all the understanding, all the compassion is there. This is Steinbeck on his road to greatness with a series of enjoyable (if not disheartening) tales.
Rating: 4 / 5
Pastures of Heaven and The Long Valley are a matched set in the Steinbeck library. The two should probably be included together as a single work. It’s difficult to separate the two books because they overlap so. With a writer of the Steinbeck sort a reader might experience difficulty declaring, “This is my favorite.” I agree completely. However, if John Steinbeck had never written Of Mice and Men, Tortilla Flat, Cannery Row, Sweet Thursday, and Travels with Charlie, I’d probably have to say Pastures of Heaven and The Long Valley were my favorites
Rating: 5 / 5