East of Eden

Late "Late" John Steinbeck. “Everything that I wrote earlier, in a sense, was only a preparation for the creation of this novel,” the writer said about his work. A novel that caused a storm of indignation of conservative critics, for a long time took first place among national bestseller and formed the basis of a classical film with James Din in the title role. Family saga... The story of passionate love and hatred, trust and betrayal, mistakes and crimes... but above all, first of all - The story of the two sons of the Californian Adam Trask, the peculiar Cain and Abel. Each of them is looking for himself in this world, but how do the roads that they choose... “You can” vary - these words from the biblical apocrymph become a kind of symbol of the novel. You can - do evil or good, become a victim or a ruthless predator.