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.

Vividly depicts the colorful, sometimes disreputable, inhabitants of a run-down area in Monterey, California

"A timeless tour through John Steinbeck's world, REAL LIFE ON CANNERY ROW highlights the unique individuals and memorable moments that influenced Steinbeck's iconic novel. Characters from the novel are brought to life, showcasing true stories behind ficti

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.

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.

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.

Presenting a nuanced story of women, migration, community, industry, and civic life at the turn of the twentieth century, Carol Lynn McKibben's Beyond Cannery Row analyzes the processes of migration and settlement of Sicilian fishers from three villages in Western Sicily to Monterey, California--and sometimes back again. McKibben's analysis of gender and gender roles shows that it was the women in this community who had the insight, the power, and the purpose to respond and even prosper amid changing economic conditions. Vividly evoking the immigrants' everyday experiences through first-person accounts and detailed description, McKibben demonstrates that the cannery work done by Sicilian immigrant women was crucial in terms of the identity formation and community development. These changes allowed their families to survive the challenges of political conflicts over citizenship in World War II and intermarriage with outsiders throughout the migration experience. The women formed voluntary associations and celebrated festas that effectively linked them with each other and with their home villages in Sicily. Continuous migration created a strong sense of transnationalism among Sicilians in Monterey, which has enabled them to continue as a viable ethnic community today.

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.

The revealed secrets of long hidden mysticism and religion - 1 A Yearning for Oneness; 2 Where Do We Start?; 3 An Original Idea; 4 Stars in Their Course; 5 Pointers on the Pathway; 6 Equality; 7 Running in Circles; 8 Yogic Thoughts of Oneness; 9 Mythology's Togetherness; 10 Tarot and Temperance; 11 Soloman and David; 12 Fertility Rites and Hermaphrodites; 13 Alchemy and Healing to the Rescue; 14 Does Acupuncture Needle Toward Harmony?; 15 Communsim and the Classless Society; 16 Reformatory Struggles Offer Hope; 17 Churches, Spirits and Oneness; 18 Supreme Mysteries Unveiled; 19 Why the Bible is Different; 20 One God, One Faith

Celebrates the American writer who in his works confronted and explored the social fabric of the United States in the early 20th century. More than 500 entries include synopses of his novels, short stories, and nonfiction; descriptions of his characters, details about family, friends, and associates.

Danny, a mule skinner during the First World War, returns to Tortilla Flat to enjoy the carefree and amoral life of the paisano

A definitive collection of stories from one of America's greatest writers includes The Moon Is Down, which details the transformation of ordinary life under Nazi rule in an unnamed Scandinavian country under German occupation, as well as Cannery Row, The Pearl, and East of Eden.

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.

This book examines American public culture and the means by which communities in the U.S. reconstruct the past and reinterpret the present in the development of tourism. Norkunas shows how public culture is not confined to just museums or monuments, but can be constructed on many different levels and in different settings, such as community ethnicity, natural setting (environment), literary landscape, and history. In her case study of Monterey, the author explores the particular ideologies that prompt the community to represent itself in tourism, and that also act to legitimate the current social structure.

Philosophy in the American West explores the physical, ecological, cultural, and narrative environments associated with the western United States, reflecting on the relationship between people and the places that sustain them. The American West has long been recognized as having significance. From Crèvecoeur’s early observations in Letters from an American Farmer (1782), to Thoreau’s reflections in Walden (1854), to twentieth-century thoughts on the legacy of a vanishing frontier, "the West" has played a pivotal role in the American narrative and in the American sense of self. But while the nature of "westernness" has been touched on by historians, sociologists, and, especially, novelists and poets, this collection represents the first attempt to think philosophically about the nature of "the West" and its influence on us. The contributors take up thinkers that have been associated with Continental Philosophy and pair them with writers, poets, and artists of "the West". And while this collection seeks to loosen the cords that tie philosophy to Europe, the traditions of "continental" philosophy—phenomenology, hermeneutics, deconstruction, and others—offer deep resources for thinking through the particularity of place. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Philosophy, as well as those working in Ecocriticism and the Environmental Humanities more broadly.

"A biography of writer John Steinbeck that describes his era, his major works--the novels The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men--his life, and the legacy of his writing"--Provided by publisher.

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.