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EAST OF EDEN / К востоку от Эдема


Год выпуска: 2008
Автор: John Steinbeck / Джон Стейнбек
Исполнитель: Mary Gladwin
Жанр: Адаптированная аудиокнига / Advanced, Level 6
Издательство: Penguin readers
Язык: English / Английский
Тип: аудиокнига
Аудио кодек: MP3
Битрейт аудио: 192 kbps
Описание: Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families -- the Trasks and the Hamiltons -- whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.
About the Author
No writer is more quintessentially American than John Steinbeck. Born in 1902 in Salinas, California, Steinbeck attended Stanford University before working at a series of mostly blue-collar jobs and embarking on his literary career. Profoundly committed to social progress, he used his writing to raise issues of labor exploitation and the plight of the common man, penning some of the greatest American novels of the twentieth century and winning such prestigious awards as the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He received the Nobel Prize in 1962, "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception." Today, more than thirty years after his death, he remains one of America's greatest writers and cultural figures.
Роман классика американской литературы Джона Стейнбека "К востоку от Эдема" ("East of Eden", 1952), по определению автора, главная книга всего его творчества. Это - своего рода аллегория библейской легенды о Каине и Авеле, действие которой перенесено в современную Америку; семейная сага, навеянная историей предков писателя по материнской линии.
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