This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies 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.
In East of Eden, the central concern of the novel is the perpetual battle between good and evil. And this battle is not only between the good people and evil...
一个流行的问题,一个人流放到荒岛,只能选几本书,列出书单,我选的肯定有这本East of Eden. 这不是一本给年轻人看的书,或者说没有人生阅历,还没有看过很多浮华,会...
Lee, the Chinese-American housekeeper for the Trask family, is my favorite character in East of Eden. He is forced to speak in the Chinese pidgin dialect tha...
Initial thought is one of the reason for PWB recommended this to Jodie, must because of the psychopath character Cathy.. it is a good story of humanity and c...
EAST OF EDEN John Steinbeck xi. The marriage fell apart in a way that allowed Steinbeck to project onto Adam and Cathy a sense that men are passive and women...