Travels with Charley in Search of America
- Authors
- Steinbeck, John
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Tags
- travel , classics , biography , adventure , history
- ISBN
- 9781101615164
- Date
- 1962-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 1.08 MB
- Lang
- en
Penguin Classics commemorates the 50th anniversary of Steinbeck's Nobel Prize with two stunning new editions of his best-loved works.
At age fifty-eight, John Steinbeck and his poodle, Charley, embarked on a journey across America. This chronicle of their trip meanders from small towns to growing cities to glorious wilderness oases. Still evocative and awe-inspiring after fifty years, Travels with Charley in Search of America provides an intimate look at one of America's most beloved writers in the later years of his life—a self-portrait of a man who never wrote an explicit autobiography. Written during a time of upheaval and racial tension in the South—which Steinbeck witnessed firsthand—Travels with Charley is a stunning evocation of America on the eve of a tumultuous decade.