Sweet Thursday Summary
John Steinbeck

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Sweet Thursday Summary

Sweet Thursday is a novel and sequel to Cannery Row written by John Steinbeck. The story is set in a part of Monterey, California known as "Cannery Row". Doc comes home from the war only to find that everything in his hometown has changed and the people he knew are either dead or gone. The transformation of Doc's town leaves him lost, depressed, and without a sense of purpose. Although Doc...

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John Steinbeck Biographies (7)

John Ernst Steinbeck

786 words, approx. 3 pages

John Ernst Steinbeck (1902-1968), American author and winner of the Nobel Prize in 1962, was a leading exponent of the proletarian novel and a prominent spokesman for the victims of the Great Depressi... Read more

John (Ernst) Steinbeck

3,344 words, approx. 12 pages

John Ernst Steinbeck was in the course of his mixed career a common laborer, world traveler, novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and playwright. Although he will be most importantly remembered for... Read more

John (Ernst) Steinbeck

16,107 words, approx. 54 pages

Throughout a career which spanned four decades, John Steinbeck was a novelist of people. His best books are about ordinary men and women, simple souls who do battle against dehumanizing social forces ... Read more

John (Ernst) Steinbeck

9,902 words, approx. 34 pages

John Steinbeck has the seemingly oxymoronic distinction of having been both a Nobel laureate and best-selling author and yet also one of the most underrated and misunderstood American authors of the t... Read more

John (Ernst) Steinbeck

5,194 words, approx. 18 pages

John Steinbeck may not be known for his work as a nature writer, at least in the sense of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, or Annie Dillard, but much of his work develops character... Read more

John Ernst Steinbeck

17,637 words, approx. 59 pages

Biography EssayThrough a career which spanned four decades, John Steinbeck was a novelist of people. His best books are about ordinary men and women, simple souls who do battle against dehumanizing so... Read more

John Steinbeck

6,778 words, approx. 23 pages

"I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature." With this declaration, John Steinbeck accepted the Nobel Prize... Read more

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