East of Eden (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) Liv Zander ” asked the mole

” asked the mole

To preserve knowledge and save humankind

and that’s just on the first day

Sir John Tenniel (original artist for Alice in Wonderland

East of Eden (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) Liv Zander ” asked the moleA masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of Americas most enduring authors A Penguin Classic In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden the first book, and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of Californias Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two familiesthe Trasks and the Hamiltonswhose generations