Cannery Row (1945) relates the story of a group of vagabonds on the Monterey coast. ... Subsequent novels proved anticlimactic--Sweet Thursday (1954), a sentimental sequel to Cannery Row; The Short Reign of Pippin IV (1957), a burlesque; and The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), a moralistic tale about a decaying Long Island seaport. ...

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• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

"I believe there is one story in the world, and only one, that has inspired and frightened us. Humans are caught - in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their greediness and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too - in a net of good and evil. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The next series of writing from Steinbeck were: Cannery Row (1945), The Wayward Bus (1947), The Pearl (1947), A Russian Journal (1948), Burning Bright (1950), and The Log from the Sea of Cortez (1951). ...

• Word Count: 2138
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School