It is based on John Steinbeck's classic 1952 novel. East of Eden (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) $16.00 at amazon.com Steinback thought of East of Eden as his magnum opus.

“East of Eden” is the most powerful and insightful novel I have ever read. The characters live large, perhaps because they were real characters in John Steinbeck’s life.

“I fell in love with East of Eden when I first read it, in my teens. Since then, adapting Steinbeck’s novel — the great, sprawling, three-generational entirety of it — has been my dream.

Steinbeck’s East of Eden was a recommendation from a fellow volunteer, who said it was the best book he’d read while there. It consumed me from the very first page. After I finished, I wept. Wept ...

Books & the Arts January 7, 2009 East of Eden James Dean makes his motion picture debut in this Elia Kazan movie film of John Steinbeck’s novel set in rural California, just prior to America’s ...

East of Eden Galati called “mythic,” by which he seemed to mean that it’s more hermetic in nature. Frankly allegorical. Spare in terms of incident, yet dense with primal resonances.

Alongside the 1955 film, nominated for four Academy Awards, this isn’t the novel’s first series adaptation. ABC launched an East Of Eden miniseries in 1981, directed by Richard Alan Shapiro.

The novel was previously adapted into a 1995 film by Kazan’s grandfather, Elia Kazan. “I fell in love with East of Eden when I first read it, in my teens,” Kazan said in a statement.

“East of Eden” is by no means an easy novel to contain on any stage. Yet you’ll never see a more credible onstage childbirth than the one here where Arrington’s Cathy gives birth, aided by ...

East of Eden Powerfully somber dramatics have been captured from the pages of John Steinbeck's East of ed en and put on film by Elia Kazan. It is a tour de force for the director's penchant for ...