Tortilla Flat

Adopting the structure and themes of the Arthurian legend, John Steinbeck created a “Camelot” on a shabby hillside above the town of Monterey, California, and peopled it with a colorful band of knights. At the center of the tale is Danny, whose house, like Arthur’s castle, becomes a gathering place for men looking for adventure, camaraderie, and a sense of belonging—men who fiercely resist the corrupting tide of honest toil and civil rectitude.
 
As Nobel Prize winner Steinbeck chronicles their deeds—their multiple lovers, their wonderful brawls, their Rabelaisian wine-drinking—he spins a tale as compelling and ultimately as touched by sorrow as the famous legends of the Round Table, which inspired him.

• Cannery Row: (Centennial Edition)
• Cannery Row
• The Winter of Our Discontent (Penguin Classics)
• Travels with Charley in Search of America
• East of Eden (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
• The Grapes of Wrath
• The Pearl
• The Vegetarian
• The Long Valley (Twentieth-century Classics)
• The Pearl