... outcasts. Cannery Row (1945) relates the story of a group of vagabonds on the Monterey coast. The Wayward Bus (1947) presents a morality tale about characters who supposedly represent middle-class society. Burning Bright (1950) preached universal brotherhood but was largely unsuccessful. Steinbeck devoted several years to his most ambitious project, East of Eden (1952; film, 1955), which paralleled the history of his mother ... ...

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... as a war correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune. The next series of writing from Steinbeck were: Cannery Row (1945), The Wayward Bus (1947), The Pearl (1947), A Russian Journal (1948), Burning Bright (1950), and The Log from the Sea of Cortez (1951). The next highly successful novel from Steinbeck since Tortilla Flat encased the saga of the Salinas Valley and much of ... ...

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