Can I read Cannery Row: on EtoBox?

Cannery Row: by John Steinbeck is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Cannery Row: about?

Steinbeck’s tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society, dependant on one another for both physical and emotional survival A Penguin Classic Published in 1945, Cannery Row focuses on the acceptance of life as it is: both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual. Drawing on his memories of the real inhabitants of Monterey, California, including longtime friend Ed Ricketts, John Steinbeck interweaves the stories of Doc, Dora, Mack and his boys, Lee Chong, and the other characters in this world where only the fittest survive, to create a novel that is at once one of his most humorous and poignant works. In her introduction, Susan Shillinglaw shows how the novel expresses, both in style and theme, much that is essentially Steinbeck: “Scientific detachment, empathy toward the lonely and depressed . . . and, at the darkest level . . . the terror of isolation and nothingness.” Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.

Who reads Cannery Row:?

Author

John Steinbeck

Publisher

Penguin (Non-Classics)

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780140177381

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

4.02 / 5 (83,404 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13