Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0142000701, Paperback)

Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America’s greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, his many works published as black-spine Penguin Classics for the first time and will feature eye-catching, newly commissioned art.

Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readers—and to the many who revisit them again and again.

Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 078874478X, Audio CD)

7 compact discs (8 hr., 30 min.) The chronicle of Steinbeck's journey across America with his dog Charley. Narrated by Ron McLarty, unabridged.

Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0453008976, Audio Cassette)

In 1960, at age 58, John Steinbeck set out with his French poodle, Charley, to rediscover the country he had been writing about for so many years. Together they crossed America from the northernmost tip of Maine to California's Monterey peninsula, stopping to smell the grass, to see the lights, and to hear the speech of the real America. Steinbeck dined with truckers, encountered bears at Yellowstone, and reflected on the American character, racial hostility, and the unexpected kindness of strangers. Lyrical, perceptive, and surprising, it's an indispensable portrait of our national identity.