Book · 1952 · Fiction

East of Eden

Name: East of Eden
Author: John Steinbeck

Penguin Books (Penguin Random House) · 602 pages

★ 6.7 editorial score

Two generations of a Salinas Valley family repeat Cain and Abel, and Steinbeck stakes everything on one Hebrew word: timshel, thou mayest, which leaves a man free to choose against his blood.

Genre

Epic Allegory Family saga

Medium

Novel

Subject

Rivalry Family Evil

Setting

California

Time

1952Depicts 1910s

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