East of Eden

East of Eden
East of Eden is a novel by American author and Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck.The work is regarded by many to be Steinbeck's most ambitious novel and by Steinbeck himself to be his magnum opus.
John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. was an American author and the Nobel Prize in Literature winner «for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception.