John Steinbeck, born in Salinas, California, in 1902, grew up in a fertile agricultural valley, about twenty-five miles from the Pacific Coast. Both the valley and the coast would serve as settings for some of his best fiction. In 1919 he went to Stanford University, where he intermittently enrolled in literature and writing courses until he left in 1925 without taking a degree. During the next five years he supported himself as a laborer and journalist in New York City, all the time working on his first novel, Cup of Gold (1929).
After marriage and a move to Pacific Grove, he published two California books, The Pastures of Heaven (1932) and To a God Unknown (1933), and worked on short stories later collected in The Long Valley (1938). Popular success and financial security came only with Tortilla Flat (1935), stories about Monterey’s paisanos. A ceaseless experimenter throughout his career, Steinbeck changed courses regularly. Three powerful novels of the late 1930s focused on the California laboring class: In Dubious Battle (1936), Of Mice and Men (1937), and the book considered by many his finest, The Grapes of Wrath (1939). The Grapes of Wrath won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1939.
Early in the 1940s, Steinbeck became a filmmaker with The Forgotten Village (1941) and a serious student of marine biology with Sea of Cortez (1941). He devoted his services to the war, writing Bombs Away (1942) and the controversial play-novelette The Moon is Down (1942). Cannery Row (1945), The Wayward Bus (1948), another experimental drama, Burning Bright (1950), and The Log from the Sea of Cortez (1951) preceded publication of the monumental East of Eden (1952), an ambitious saga of the Salinas Valley and his own family’s history.
The last decades of his life were spent in New York City and Sag Harbor with his third wife, with whom he traveled widely. Later books include Sweet Thursday (1954), The Short Reign of Pippin IV: A Fabrication (1957), Once There Was a War (1958), The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Travels with Charley in Search of America (1962), America and Americans (1966), and the posthumously published Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters (1969), Viva Zapata! (1975), The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976), and Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath (1989).
Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962, and, in 1964, he was presented with the United States Medal of Freedom by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Steinbeck died in New York in 1968. Today, more than thirty years after his death, he remains one of America's greatest writers and cultural figures.
下層人民奇諾的兒子被蠍子蟄瞭,自大的醫生不肯醫治。奇諾為瞭賺錢求醫找到瞭一顆非常巨大的珍珠。聞風而來的醫生主動要求醫治奇諾的孩子....................
很薄,写得不错。 一般人都觉得挖到值钱的大珍珠就等于发财了,我也一直这么想的,但这个小说告诉我们,现实永远不是那么简单容易的
評分在电纸书上匆匆地读完了这个中篇小说。 总是对结局显示了无奈。为何正当所得的珍珠到最后却因为现实的碰壁只能丢弃呢? 人的为自己争取幸福的权利多么无奈?在阶层和贫富面前,同样的物质条件下幸福确实不同的。 读了此书,我更灰心也更失望。无论你手里握着的珍珠有多美丽,但...
評分在电纸书上匆匆地读完了这个中篇小说。 总是对结局显示了无奈。为何正当所得的珍珠到最后却因为现实的碰壁只能丢弃呢? 人的为自己争取幸福的权利多么无奈?在阶层和贫富面前,同样的物质条件下幸福确实不同的。 读了此书,我更灰心也更失望。无论你手里握着的珍珠有多美丽,但...
評分 評分珍珠負擔
评分沒有文化的人,沒有知識的人,對世界是畏縮而恐懼的,有知識的人和無知者之間的力量差距就像洞穴中的動物與現代文明。
评分西部片的感覺
评分匹夫無罪,懷璧其罪。’珍珠本身也是純潔的,人心纔是醜惡的。
评分斯坦貝剋真的是擅長描寫與想象力的行傢,各種細節與感官的描寫,以及各種角色人物心理狀態的描述,簡直專業極瞭。雖然故事是一個俗套的關於人性的悲慘故事,但不得不說,斯坦貝剋寫齣來真的是畫麵感極強。
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