The Red Pony - (libro En Inglés)

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Nombre: The Red Pony - (Libro en Inglés)
Marca: Penguin

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A Penguin ClassicWritten at a time of profound anxiety caused by the illness of his mother, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck draws on his memories of childhood in these stories about a boy who embodies both the rebellious spirit and the contradictory desire for acceptance of early adolescence. Unlike most coming-of-age stories, the cycle does not end with a hero "matured" by circumstances. As John Seelye writes in his introduction, reversing common interpretations,The Red Pony is imbued with a sense of loss. Jody's encounters with birth and death express a common theme in Steinbeck's fiction: They are parts of the ongoing process of life, "resolving" nothing.The Red Pony was central not only to Steinbeck's emergence as a major American novelist but to the shaping of a distinctly mid twentieth-century genre, opening up a new range of possibilities about the fictional presence of a child's world. This edition contains an introduction by John Seelye.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. Críticas By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Biografía del autor 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) andTo a God Unknown (1933), and worked on short stories later collected inThe Long Valley (1938). Popular success and financial security came only withTortilla 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 withThe Forgotten Village (1941) and a serious student of marine biology withSea of Cortez (1941). He devoted his services to the war, writing Bombs Away (1942) and the controversial play-noveletteThe Moon is Down (1942).Cannery Row (1945),The Wayward Bus (1948), another experimental drama,Burning Bright(1950), andThe Log from the Sea of Cortez (1951) preceded publication of the monumentalEast 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 includeSweet 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 publishedJournal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters (1969),Viva Zapata!(1975),The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976), andWorking Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath (1989). Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962, and, in

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-Idioma: Inglés
-Autor: Steinbeck, John
-Editorial: Penguin
-N° Paginas: 128
-Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
-Envío: Desde EE.UU.

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Medidas: 5 cm x 22 cm x 27 cm cm
Material: Papel
Modelo: 9780140187397
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Color: Multicolor
Nombre de color: Multicolor
ASIN: 0140187391
País de producción: United States
Encuadernado: Pasta blanda
Editorial: Penguin
Titulo del libro: The Red Pony - (Libro en Inglés)
Autor: Steinbeck, John
Fecha de publicación: 1994
Idioma: Inglés
Edición: 1
Número de páginas: 128
ISBN-13: 9780140187397
Edad mínima sugerida: 6
Contenido del paquete: 1 pieza
SKU: 9780140187397