To a God Unknown
Overview
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
by John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. was an American writer. He is widely known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden and the novella Of Mice and Men...
, first published in 1933. The book was Steinbeck's second novel (after his unsuccessful Cup of Gold
Cup of Gold
Cup of Gold: A life of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, with Occasional Reference to History was John Steinbeck's first novel, a work of historical fiction based loosely on the life and death of privateer Henry Morgan...
), the title taken from the book of Acts (chapter 17) in the Bible. Steinbeck found To a God Unknown extremely difficult to write; taking him roughly five years to complete, the novella proved more time-consuming than either East of Eden or The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath is a novel published in 1939 and written by John Steinbeck, who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1940 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962....
, Steinbeck's longest novels.
In this short novel, Steinbeck explores the relationship of man to his land.
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