East Of Eden Book Summary

East Of Eden Book Summary. By now, because of his expertise in military matters acquired mostly from reading and his writings on the subject, cyrus has become a famous military advisor in the g.a.r. East of eden by john steinbeck.

East of eden is an epic novel full of good and evil, love and hatred, failure and redemption. (grand army of the republic). The selection of east of eden by oprah winfrey for her book club (2003) revived reader interest in this serious but entertaining novel that endeavors to lift up the human spirit in the face of everything that would destroy it.

He brings his strict but loving wife, liza, with him from ireland.

In east of eden, john steinbeck explores the story of brothers across two generations of a single family. The hamiltons are a poor family living on dry, barren land, but adam trask and his wife cathy trask are rich from inheritance and live on a fertile and rich piece of land with a large. East of eden is a novel by john steinbeck that was first published in 1952. East of eden is the story of two families, the hamilton family and the trask family, both of whom migrate to the salinas valley in california.