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1) East of Eden
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
Description
"...Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the interwined destines 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..."
2) East of Eden
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Cal Trask is considered the "bad" son of taciturn Salinas Valley lettuce farmer Adam Trask. Although Cal always means well, he just can't stay out of trouble. Neither is Cal able to match the high esteem in which his father holds his "good" brother Aron. Only Aron's girl friend Abra and kindly old Doctor Sam seem to be able to see the essential goodness in the troublesome Cal. In an effort to win his father's love, Cal purchases a fresh lettuce crop...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Each working day from January 29 to November 1, 1951, John Steinbeck warmed up to the work of writing East of Eden with a letter to the late Pascal Covici, his friend and editor at The Viking Press. It was his way, he said, of "getting my mental arm in shape to pitch a good game."
Steinbeck's letters were written on the left-hand pages of a notebook in which the facing pages would be filled with the test of East of Eden.
...Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Adam and Charles Trask grow up in the shadow of their father, Cyrus. Cyrus prefers Adam, inciting jealousy in his younger son. Adam is signed up for the cavalry, while Charles works on the family farm. Reuniting years later, the brothers live in peace until a beautiful woman nearly beaten to death arrives on their front porch. Adam nurses her back to health and falls blindly in love. But Cathy hides a cruel past. Adam and Cathy marry and have twin...
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