- Poor, Open Library Staff Picks, Fiction in English, Fiction
Adopting the structure and themes of the Arthurian legend, Steinbeck created a "Camelot" on a shabby hillside above Monterey on the California coast and peopled it with a colorful band of knights. As Steinbeck chronicles their thoughts and emotions, temptations and lusts, he spins a tale as compelling, and ultimately as touched by sorrow, as the famous legends of the Round Table. This is the first of a trilogy, along with 'Cannery Row' and 'Sweet Thursday.'
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Contemplative, prestige, character-led and meticulous.
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
- rawmeticulous
- effortlessdemanding
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the book
- Author
- John Steinbeck
- First published
- 1935
- Pages
- 225
- Publisher
- Navona, Heinemann Educational Publishers, Arrow Books
- Editions
- 88
- Language
- Dutch, Chinese, Swedish, German
- ISBN
- 9780451008169
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 34 have read it and 111 want to.
John Steinbeck was an American writer. He wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel *The Grapes of Wrath* (1939) and the novella *Of Mice and Men* (1937). He wrote a total of 27 books, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and five collections of short stories. In 1962, Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature ([Source][1]). [1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
Taiwan Travelogue 202478% alikeBoth prestige.
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 196176% alikeBoth prestige.
Bluebeard 198773% alikeBoth contemplative, prestige.
Cannery Row 194573% alikeBoth contemplative, prestige.
Close across the board.
The Rum Diary 199870% alikeClose across the board.
Close across the board.
The Penelopiad 200570% alikeBoth prestige, contemplative.
Film · Both contemplative.
Breakfast on Pluto 200579% alikeFilm · Both prestige.