East of Eden (Google Books ⧉, Amazon ⧉, Bookshop ⧉)

by John Steinbeck

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Dr. Gunn’s Family Medicine

Samuel had a great black book on an available shelf and it had gold letters on the cover—Dr. Gunn’s Family Medicine. Some pages were bent and beat up from use, and others were never opened to the light.

Bible

Her total intellectual association was the Bible, except the talk of Samuel and her children, and to them she did not listen. In that one book she had her history and her poetry, her knowledge of peoples and things, her ethics, her morals, and her salvation. She never studied the Bible or inspected it; she just read it.

Alice in Wonderland

Her mother said, “What’s that book you’re hiding?” “Here, I’m not hiding it.” “Oh! Alice in Wonderland. You’re too big for that.” “I can get to be so little you can’t even see me.”

hymnal

Near him on the floor was a candlestick from the altar. One of the three candles was still burning. The other two had not been lighted. And on the floor were two books, the hymnal and the Book of Common Prayer, one on top of the other.

Book of Common Prayer

Near him on the floor was a candlestick from the altar. One of the three candles was still burning. The other two had not been lighted. And on the floor were two books, the hymnal and the Book of Common Prayer, one on top of the other.

Othello

I should give you Othello’s handkerchief. Oh, I know I should.

The Principles of Psychology

In my basket, under my clothes, you’ll find two books—new, so be gentle with them. It’s two volumes by a man the world is going to hear from. It’s called The Principles of Psychology and it’s by an Eastern man named William James. No relative to the train robber. And, Joe, if you ever let on about the books I’ll run you off the ranch. If your mother ever found out I spent the money on them she’d run me off the ranch.

Scripture

And each for all its bumptiousness brought with it the same thing: the Scripture on which our ethics, our art and poetry, and our relationships are built.

Bible

He stooped down to her while she tied his black string tie. His white beard was brushed to shining. “Could I take the Bible along?” he asked. “There’s no place for getting a good name like the Bible.”

The Bible

I think perhaps Liza accepted the world as she accepted the Bible, with all of its paradoxes and its reverses.

American Standard Bible

Then I got a copy of the American Standard Bible. It was very new then. And it was different in this passage. It says, ‘Do thou rule over him.’

King James version

The King James version says this—it is when Jehovah has asked Cain why he is angry. Jehovah says, ‘If thou doest well, shall thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.’

Genesis

Do you remember when you read us the sixteen verses of the fourth chapter of Genesis and we argued about them?

Unknown

He turned to Adam and said in poetic singsong, 'Abra was ready ere I called her name; And though I called another, Abra came.' Matthew Prior. I won’t say I hadn’t wanted a son—but Abra’s such a comfort. Look up, dear.

Chatterbox

Maybe she had recounted a meeting with Old Man Taylor, who bought old houses and moved them to a big vacant lot he owned until he had so many it looked like a dry‐land Sargasso Sea. Maybe she had read a poem from Chatterbox with gestures.

The Bible

She heard Mollie’s sweet high voice in the kitchen, reading a morning text from the Bible, and Una’s full cold throaty correction.

Bible

Cal said, “My name is Caleb,” Cal said. “Caleb got to the Promised Land. That’s what Lee says, and it’s in the Bible.”

von Clausewitz

“Did you ever read von Clausewitz?” said Lee.

Dante's Inferno

He had no idea where he had got his picture of academic life—perhaps from the Doré illustrations of Dante’s Inferno with its massed and radiant angels.

Alice in Wonderland

She remembered the book—brown, with a silver title, and the cloth was broken and the boards thick. It was Alice in Wonderland.

The Winning of Barbara Worth

He sat up in bed and read seven chapters of The Winning of Barbara Worth, and when it was daylight he went down to the silent kitchen and made a pot of coffee.

The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

Lee took out a tiny volume bound in leather, and the gold tooling was almost completely worn away—The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius in English translation.

Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

filed among the pages of the two-volume Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, which to the best of her knowledge had never been opened by anyone but herself since it came off the press.

Indirect References

The Ant and the Grasshopper

“Well, what did you learn today?” “Nothing!” “Oh, come! You must have learned something. Did you read?” “Yes, sir.” “What did you read?” “That old one about the grasshopper and the ant.”

The Eagle Carries a Baby Away

“There’s one about an eagle carries a baby away.” “Yes, I remember that one. I forget what happens.” “We aren’t to it yet. We saw the pictures.”

Book under the seat

“Well,” he said, “Done any studying?” “Studying?” Adam said. “Ain’t you even read the litature in the book under the seat?” “I didn’t know it was there,” said Adam. “Oh, Lord,” said the young man disgustedly.

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The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians

Even as a kid, I read a lot of adult books, like John Steinbeck’s East of Eden, or Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment.

Places Referenced

Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England
"Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth,Middlesex, England"
625 Madison Avenue, New York
"Penguin Books, 625 Madison Avenue,New York, New York 10022, U.S.A."
2801 John Street, Markham
"Penguin Books Canada Limited, 2801 John Street,Markham, Ontario, Canada L3R 1B4"
182-190 Wairau Road, Auckland
"Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd, 182-190 Wairau Road,Auckland 10, New Zealand"
United States of America
"First published in the United States of America byThe Viking Press 1952"
Canada
"First published in Canada by The Macmillan Company ofCanada Limited 1952"
United States of America
"Except in the United States of America,this book is sold subject to the conditionthat it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise,be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated"
Salinas Valley, California
"Chapter 11The Salinas Valley is in Northern California. It is a long narrow swale between two ranges of mountains, and the Salinas River winds and twists up the center until it falls at last into Monterey Bay."
Monterey Bay, California
"It is a long narrow swale between two ranges of mountains, and the Salinas River winds and twists up the center until it falls at last into Monterey Bay."
Dallas, Texas
"Printed in the United States of America byOffset Paperback Mfrs., Inc., Dallas, Pennsylvania"
Ringwood, Victoria
"Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood,Victoria, Australia"
Gabilan Mountains, California
"I remember that the Gabilan Mountains to the east of the valley were light gay mountains full of sun and loveliness and a kind of invitation, so that you wanted to climb into their warm foothills almost as you want to climb into the lap of a beloved mother."
Santa Lucia Mountains, California
"The Santa Lucias stood up against the sky to the west and kept the valley from the open sea, and they were dark and brooding—unfriendly and dangerous."
King City, California
"And this is about the way the Salinas Valley was when my grandfather brought his wife and settled in the foothills to the east of King City."
Bradley, California
"Every ten miles along the traveled routes a general store and blacksmith shop happened, and these became the nuclei of little towns, Bradley, King City, Greenfield."
Greenfield, California
"Every ten miles along the traveled routes a general store and blacksmith shop happened, and these became the nuclei of little towns, Bradley, King City, Greenfield."
San Miguel, California
"Thus the first names of places were saints’ names or religious holidays celebrated at stopping places. We have San Miguel, St. Michael, San Ardo, San Bernardo, San Benito, San Lorenzo, San Carlos, San Francisquito."
St. Michael, California
"Thus the first names of places were saints’ names or religious holidays celebrated at stopping places. We have San Miguel, St. Michael, San Ardo, San Bernardo, San Benito, San Lorenzo, San Carlos, San Francisquito."
San Ardo, California
"Thus the first names of places were saints’ names or religious holidays celebrated at stopping places. We have San Miguel, St. Michael, San Ardo, San Bernardo, San Benito, San Lorenzo, San Carlos, San Francisquito."
San Bernardo, California
"Thus the first names of places were saints’ names or religious holidays celebrated at stopping places. We have San Miguel, St. Michael, San Ardo, San Bernardo, San Benito, San Lorenzo, San Carlos, San Francisquito."
San Benito, California
"Thus the first names of places were saints’ names or religious holidays celebrated at stopping places. We have San Miguel, St. Michael, San Ardo, San Bernardo, San Benito, San Lorenzo, San Carlos, San Francisquito."
San Carlos, California
"Thus the first names of places were saints’ names or religious holidays celebrated at stopping places. We have San Miguel, St. Michael, San Ardo, San Bernardo, San Benito, San Lorenzo, San Carlos, San Francisquito."
San Francisquito, California
"Thus the first names of places were saints’ names or religious holidays celebrated at stopping places. We have San Miguel, St. Michael, San Ardo, San Bernardo, San Benito, San Lorenzo, San Carlos, San Francisquito."
Natividad, California
"And then the holidays—Natividad, the Nativity; Nacimiente, the Birth; Soledad, the Solitude."
Nacimiente, California
"And then the holidays—Natividad, the Nativity; Nacimiente, the Birth; Soledad, the Solitude."
Soledad, California
"And then the holidays—Natividad, the Nativity; Nacimiente, the Birth; Soledad, the Solitude."
Buena Esperenza, California
"But places were also named from the way the expedition felt at the time: Buena Esperenza, good hope; Buena Vista because the view was beautiful; and Chualar because it was pretty."
Buena Vista, California
"But places were also named from the way the expedition felt at the time: Buena Esperenza, good hope; Buena Vista because the view was beautiful; and Chualar because it was pretty."
Chualar, California
"But places were also named from the way the expedition felt at the time: Buena Esperenza, good hope; Buena Vista because the view was beautiful; and Chualar because it was pretty."
Paso de los Robles, California
"The descriptive names followed: Paso de los Robles because of the oak trees; Los Laureles for the laurels; Tularcitos because of the reeds in the swamp; and Salinas for the alkali which was white as salt."
Los Laureles, California
"The descriptive names followed: Paso de los Robles because of the oak trees; Los Laureles for the laurels; Tularcitos because of the reeds in the swamp; and Salinas for the alkali which was white as salt."
Tularcitos, California
"The descriptive names followed: Paso de los Robles because of the oak trees; Los Laureles for the laurels; Tularcitos because of the reeds in the swamp; and Salinas for the alkali which was white as salt."
Salinas, California
"The descriptive names followed: Paso de los Robles because of the oak trees; Los Laureles for the laurels; Tularcitos because of the reeds in the swamp; and Salinas for the alkali which was white as salt."
Gabilanes, California
"Then places were named for animals and birds seen—Gabilanes for the hawks which flew in those mountains; Topo for the mole; Los Gatos for the wild cats."
Topo, California
"Then places were named for animals and birds seen—Gabilanes for the hawks which flew in those mountains; Topo for the mole; Los Gatos for the wild cats."
Los Gatos, California
"Then places were named for animals and birds seen—Gabilanes for the hawks which flew in those mountains; Topo for the mole; Los Gatos for the wild cats."
Tassajara, California
"The suggestions sometimes came from the nature of the place itself: Tassajara, a cup and saucer; Laguna Seca, a dry lake; Corral de Tierra for a fence of earth; Paraiso because it was like Heaven."
Laguna Seca, California
"The suggestions sometimes came from the nature of the place itself: Tassajara, a cup and saucer; Laguna Seca, a dry lake; Corral de Tierra for a fence of earth; Paraiso because it was like Heaven."
Corral de Tierra, California
"The suggestions sometimes came from the nature of the place itself: Tassajara, a cup and saucer; Laguna Seca, a dry lake; Corral de Tierra for a fence of earth; Paraiso because it was like Heaven."
Paraiso, California
"The suggestions sometimes came from the nature of the place itself: Tassajara, a cup and saucer; Laguna Seca, a dry lake; Corral de Tierra for a fence of earth; Paraiso because it was like Heaven."
Bolsa Nueva, California
"I think of Bolsa Nueva, a new purse; Morocojo, a lame Moor (who was he and how did he get there?); Wild Horse Canyon and Mustang Grade and Shirt Tail Canyon."
Moss Landing, California, United States
"The river mouth at Moss Landing was centuries ago the entrance to this long inland water."
Morocojo, California
"I think of Bolsa Nueva, a new purse; Morocojo, a lame Moor (who was he and how did he get there?); Wild Horse Canyon and Mustang Grade and Shirt Tail Canyon."
Wild Horse Canyon, California
"I think of Bolsa Nueva, a new purse; Morocojo, a lame Moor (who was he and how did he get there?); Wild Horse Canyon and Mustang Grade and Shirt Tail Canyon."
Mustang Grade, California
"I think of Bolsa Nueva, a new purse; Morocojo, a lame Moor (who was he and how did he get there?); Wild Horse Canyon and Mustang Grade and Shirt Tail Canyon."
Shirt Tail Canyon, California
"I think of Bolsa Nueva, a new purse; Morocojo, a lame Moor (who was he and how did he get there?); Wild Horse Canyon and Mustang Grade and Shirt Tail Canyon."
Ireland, Europe
"Young Samuel Hamilton came from the north of Ireland and so did his wife."
Salinas Valley, California
"When Samuel and Liza came to the Salinas Valley all the level land was taken, the rich bottoms, the little fertile creases in the hills, the forests, but there was still marginal land to be homesteaded, and in the barren hills, to the east of what is now King City, Samuel Hamilton homesteaded."
King City, California
"in the barren hills, to the east of what is now King City, Samuel Hamilton homesteaded."
San Ardo, California
"It wasn’t very long until all the land in the barren hills near King City and San Ardo was taken up, and ragged families were scattered through the hills, trying their best to scratch a living from the thin flinty soil."
Salinas River, California
"From their barren hills the Hamiltons could look down to the west and see the richness of the bottom land and the greenness around the Salinas River."
Connecticut, United States
"Adam Trask was born on a farm on the outskirts of a little town which was not far from a big town in Connecticut."
Maine, United States
"Cyrus Trask mourned for his wife with a keg of whisky and three old army friends who had dropped in on their way home to Maine."
San Francisco, California
"Did Father write you anything about his trip? He’s gone clean out to San Francisco in California for an encampment of the Grand Army. The Secty. of War is going to be there, and Father is to introduce him."
White House, Washington, D.C.
"He has met the President three, four times and even been to supper to the White House. I would like to see the White House. Maybe you and me can go together when you come home."
Salinas Valley, California
"When Will was a growing boy, his father had not been long enough in the Salinas Valley to be thought of as an 'old-timer."
San Lucas, California
"And perhaps Will as a little boy heard talk in the San Lucas store."
King City, California
"It was a whole clot of Hamiltons growing up on the ranch to the east of King City."
Salinas, California
"A trip to Salinas sixty miles to the north at the head of the valley was event enough for a year."
Ireland, Europe
"Samuel never went back to Ireland and gradually he forgot it entirely."
East Coast, United States
"They were looked upon with contempt, particularly on the East Coast."
America, United States
"At that time the Irish were much disliked in America."
Washington, D.C., United States
"After Adam joined the army and Cyrus moved to Washington, Charles lived alone on the farm."
Buffalo, New York, United States
"He arrived in Chicago, and there, for no reason, rented a furnished room for a week, stayed in it for two days, went to Buffalo, changed his mind, and moved to Niagara Falls."
Niagara Falls, New York, United States
"He arrived in Chicago, and there, for no reason, rented a furnished room for a week, stayed in it for two days, went to Buffalo, changed his mind, and moved to Niagara Falls."
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
"While he waited to change trains in Kansas City, he heard his name called and a message was shoved into his hand—orders to report to Washington to the office of the Secretary of War."
Chicago, Illinois
"In 1886 the big packinghouse strike broke out in Chicago and Adam’s regiment entrained, but the strike was settled before they were needed."
Sacramento, California
"Adam waited out the winter, wandering up the river to Sacramento, ranging in the valley of the San Joaquín, and when the spring came Adam had no money."
San Joaquín, California
"ranging in the valley of the San Joaquín"
San Luis Obispo, California
"He wandered by the sea from the border north as far as San Luis Obispo, and he learned to pilfer the tide pools for abalones and eels and mussels and perch, to dig the sandbars for clams, and to trap a rabbit in the dunes with a noose of fishline."
Denver, Colorado
"Adam took a job on a widow’s outfit near Denver and shared her table and her bed humbly until the frost drove him south again."
Rio Grande, Texas
"He followed the Rio Grande past Albuquerque and El Paso through the Big Bend, through Laredo to Brownsville."
Albuquerque, New Mexico
"He followed the Rio Grande past Albuquerque and El Paso through the Big Bend, through Laredo to Brownsville."
Washington, D.C., United States
"…of sick cows and a foaling mare, of the added pasture and the lightning-struck barn, of Alice’s choking death from her consumption and his father’s move to a permanent paid position in the G.A.R. in Washington."
Boston, Massachusetts
"The girls were assigned, procured, moved, disciplined, and robbed by a whoremaster named Edwards, who lived in Boston."
Southern California, United States
"fled through the mountains and arrived with relief in Southern California."
Omaha, Nebraska, United States
"When autumn touched the trees he had got as far as Omaha, and without question or reason or thought he hurried west and south."
West Point, New York
"I can get you into West Point. I have influence. I can get you discharged so you can enter West Point."
The Presidio, San Francisco, California, United States
"It was late in 1890, and he was discharged with sergeant’s stripes in the Presidio in San Francisco."
El Paso, Texas
"He followed the Rio Grande past Albuquerque and El Paso through the Big Bend, through Laredo to Brownsville."
Big Bend, Texas
"He followed the Rio Grande past Albuquerque and El Paso through the Big Bend, through Laredo to Brownsville."
Laredo, Texas
"He followed the Rio Grande past Albuquerque and El Paso through the Big Bend, through Laredo to Brownsville."
Brownsville, Texas
"He followed the Rio Grande past Albuquerque and El Paso through the Big Bend, through Laredo to Brownsville."
Florida, United States
"During his second sentence on the roads of Florida, Adam reduced his personality to a minus."
Tallahassee, Florida
"Near Tallahassee he was picked up by sheriff’s men, judged vagrant, and put on a road gang."
East Texas, Texas
"Adam moved rapidly across interminable East Texas, through Louisiana and the butt ends of Mississippi and Alabama, and into the flank of Florida."
Louisiana, United States
"Adam moved rapidly across interminable East Texas, through Louisiana and the butt ends of Mississippi and Alabama, and into the flank of Florida."
Mississippi, United States
"Adam moved rapidly across interminable East Texas, through Louisiana and the butt ends of Mississippi and Alabama, and into the flank of Florida."
Alabama, United States
"Adam moved rapidly across interminable East Texas, through Louisiana and the butt ends of Mississippi and Alabama, and into the flank of Florida."
Valdosta, Georgia
"On the edge of Valdosta, Georgia, he lay hidden until long after midnight, and he entered the town like a shadow."
Washington, D.C., United States
"In February of 1894 when a thick letter came from a firm of attorneys in Washington the postmaster thought it might be important."
Massachusetts, United States
"Cathy’s father was not so sure. He operated a small tannery in a town in Massachusetts, which made a comfortable, careful living if he worked very hard."
Boston, Massachusetts
"The station agent was certain. Cathy had taken the early morning train. She had bought a ticket for Boston. He helped Mr. Ames write a telegram to the Boston police. Mr. Ames bought a round-trip ticket and caught the nine-fifty train to Boston."
Boston, Massachusetts
"He maintained his wife and his two well-mannered children in a good house in a good neighborhood in Boston."
Groton, Massachusetts
"The children, two boys, were entered on the books at Groton when they were infants."
New England, United States
"Before he died at sixty‐seven of strangulation on a chicken bone, he had groups of four girls in each of thirty‐three small towns in New England."
Port Said, Egypt
"“You fat slug,” she said. “What do you know about me? Do you think I can’t read every rotten thought you ever had? Want me to tell you? You wonder where a nice girl like me learned tricks. I’ll tell you. I learned them in cribs—you hear?—cribs. I’ve worked in places you never even heard of—four years. Sailors brought me little tricks from Port Said. I know every nerve in your lousy body and I can use them.”"
Connecticut, United States
"“I thought we’d go for a little trip.” “Where? I can’t go.” “Little town in Connecticut. I have some business there. You told me once you wanted to work. You’re going to work.”"
Washington, D.C., United States
"They traveled together to Washington to look at the grave, good stone and on top an iron star with seal and a hole on the top in which to insert the stick for a little flag on Decoration Day."
California, United States
"“It’s nice in California,” he said. “It’s nice in the winter. And you can raise anything there.”"
South Seas, Pacific Ocean
"“I don’t see any guards holding you. Go down to the South Seas and lay in a hammock if that’s what you want.”"
Buenos Aires, Argentina
"Six months later there was another card, from Buenos Aires. “Dear Charles—my God this is a big city. They speak French and Spanish both. I’m sending you a book.”"
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
"Charles got a colored picture postcard of the bay at Rio, and Adam had written on the back with a splottery pen, “It’s summer here when it’s winter there. Why don’t you come down?”"
Georgia, United States
"“I served three days less than the second six months and then I escaped—got over the Georgia line.”"
Paris, France
"“Did you ever think, Charles, that we’ve got enough money to do anything we want to do? We could go to Europe, we could walk around Paris.”"
Egypt, Africa
"“Charles, we could go to Egypt and walk around the Sphinx.”"
Sphinx, Giza
"“Charles, we could go to Egypt and walk around the Sphinx.”"
California, United States
"“I don’t want to go to California.” “Nonsense. Why, it’s nice there, sun all the time and beautiful.”"
White House, Washington, D.C.
"What we had was a burned White House and ten thousand widows on the public pension list."
California, United States
"She said she did not want to go to California and he did not listen, because his Cathy took his arm and started first."
Boston, Massachusetts
"“Where’d you go?” “Boston.” “No place else?” “No. Just looked at the city.”"
Europe
"“Did you ever think, Charles, that we’ve got enough money to do anything we want to do? We could go to Europe, we could walk around Paris.”"
Mexico City, Mexico
"Then the soldiers went to Mexico and it was a kind of painful picnic."
King City, California
"One morning she complained of feeling ill and stayed in her room in the King City hotel while Adam drove into the country."
Salinas Valley, California
"How they happened to go to the Salinas Valley is very easy to understand."
San Lucas, California
"The Bordoni ranch a few miles south of King City, almost equidistant, in fact, between San Lucas and King City."
Blanco, California, United States
"Off to the sides, around Salinas and Blanco and Castroville and Moss Landing, the marshes are still there."
Moss Landing, California, United States
"Off to the sides, around Salinas and Blanco and Castroville and Moss Landing, the marshes are still there."
San Antonio Mission, California
"The library (in Latin and Spanish) of the San Antonio Mission was thrown into a granary, where the rats ate off the sheepskin bindings."
Salinas, California
"Olive Hamilton became a teacher. That meant that she left home at fifteen and went to live in Salinas, where she could go to secondary school."
King City, California
"Olive did marry her young man and did move, first to Paso Robles, then to King City, and finally to Salinas."
Greenfield, California
"It was told of her that she cried bitterly because she could not go to two dances on one Saturday night. One was in Greenfield and the other in San Lucas—twenty miles apart."
San Lucas, California
"It was told of her that she cried bitterly because she could not go to two dances on one Saturday night. One was in Greenfield and the other in San Lucas—twenty miles apart."
Salinas Race Track and Rodeo Grounds, Salinas, California
"This glory was scheduled to take place at the Salinas Race Track and Rodeo Grounds."
Salinas Valley, California
"For some reason the mountains to the west of the Salinas Valley have a thicker skin of earth on them than have the eastern foothills, so that the grass is richer there."
King City, California
"In a shed, covered with tarpaulins, lay the crated heavy furniture sent from San Francisco and carted out from King City."
San Francisco, California
"In a shed, covered with tarpaulins, lay the crated heavy furniture sent from San Francisco and carted out from King City."
Connecticut, United States
"In a Connecticut summer two weeks without rain is a dry spell and four a drought. If the countryside is not green it is dying."
Pajaro, California
"Lee, his pigtailed Chinese cook, had made a special trip to Pajaro to buy the pots and kettles and pans, kegs, jars, copper, and glass for his kitchen."
Ireland, Europe
"Samuel could remember hearing of a cousin of his mother’s in Ireland, a knight and rich and handsome, and anyway shot himself on a silken couch, sitting beside the most beautiful woman in the world who loved him."
China, Asia
"I did go back to China. My father was a fairly successful man. It didn’t work. They said I looked like a foreign devil; they said I spoke like a foreign devil. I made mistakes in manners, and I didn’t know delicacies that had grown up since my father left. They wouldn’t have me."
Greenfield, California
"Few weeks ago I took a drive up around Greenfield and Gonzales. Some Swiss have moved in there. They’ve got nice little dairy herds, and they get four crops of alfalfa a year."
Gonzales, California
"Few weeks ago I took a drive up around Greenfield and Gonzales. Some Swiss have moved in there. They’ve got nice little dairy herds, and they get four crops of alfalfa a year."
San Jose, California
"He let his mind range more deliciously than any other, and it didn’t sound so silly when you heard what they were doing in San Jose."
Salinas River, California
"Contentment would flood raging down the valley like the Salinas River in March of a thirty‐inch year."
Salinas, California
"In the towns they talked of sewers and inside toilets, and some already had them; and arc lights on the street corners—Salinas had those—and telephones."
Londonderry, Northern Ireland
"He saw himself, a very little boy, so small that he had to reach high for his father’s hand. He felt the cobbles of Londonderry under his feet and the crush and gaiety of the one big city he had seen."
Palo Alto, California
"“But I want to go, Father. And don’t forget, next year I’ll be going, to college in Palo Alto. And that’s going away, isn’t it? Please let me go. I’ll work hard.”"
San Jose, California
"“You thought the traveling suit Dessie made to go to San Jose was store bought.”"
King City, California
"“I thought I’d ask George to come back. He doesn’t like a clerk’s job even if it is in King City.”"
Boston, Massachusetts
"“...and some of the bushes are coming clear from Boston.”"
Salinas Valley, California
"“And Samuel Hamilton resolved to help greatly with the Salinas Valley Eden, to make a secret guilt-payment for his ugly thoughts.”"
King City, California
"Liza awakened him and looked at his hand before she even glanced at the babies. While she did well the things he had done in a lumbering, masculine way, she gave him his orders and packed him off. He was to get up this instant, saddle Doxology, and ride straight to King City. No matter what time it was, he must wake up that good-for-nothing doctor and get his hand treated."
King City, California
"Horace Quinn was the new deputy sheriff appointed to look after things around the King City district."
Salinas, California
"His wife complained even more, but the truth of the matter was that nothing much had happened in a criminal way since Horace had been deputy. He had seen himself making a name for himself and running for sheriff. The sheriff was an important officer. His job was less flighty than that of district attorney, almost as permanent and dignified as superior court judge. Horace didn’t want to stay on the ranch all his life, and his wife had an urge to live in Salinas where she had relatives."
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
"Another man, but he was crazy, said that someday there’d be a way, maybe ice, maybe some other way, to get a peach like this here I got in my hand clear to Philadelphia."
Salinas, California
"Off to the sides, around Salinas and Blanco and Castroville and Moss Landing, the marshes are still there."
Gonzales, California
"That’s from about Gonzales north to the river mouth."
Castroville, California
"Off to the sides, around Salinas and Blanco and Castroville and Moss Landing, the marshes are still there."
Paso Robles, California, United States
"Olive did marry her young man and did move, first to Paso Robles, then to King City, and finally to Salinas."
Sacramento, California
"…Let me get all this said so we won’t have to go back over it. About three months ago a fine‐looking woman came in to see me. She wanted to open a house here and wanted to do it right. Came from Sacramento. Ran a place there. She had letters from some pretty important people—straight record—never had any trouble. A pretty damn good citizen."
San Francisco, California
"Just north of the big sycamore tree where the Hester road turns off to the left, Horace met Julius Euskadi. Julius said, “If you’d come along with me, I’d go into Salinas. They tell me that right next door to Jenny’s, two doors from the Long Green, there’s a new place called Faye’s. I heard it was pretty nice, run like San Francisco. They’ve got a piano player.”"
Salinas Valley, California
"The sects did more than this, though. They built the structure of social life in the Salinas Valley."
Salinas, California
"I will tell you about the solemn courts of love in Salinas. They were about the same in other towns, but the Salinas Row has a pertinence to this telling."
Salinas Row, Salinas, California
"I will tell you about the solemn courts of love in Salinas. They were about the same in other towns, but the Salinas Row has a pertinence to this telling."
Castroville Street, Salinas, California
"That’s where Castroville Street crossed Main. Castroville Street is now called Market Street, God knows why."
Castroville, California
"Thus Castroville Street, if you followed it nine miles, brought you to Castroville, Alisal Street to Alisal, and so forth."
Sacramento, California
"When Faye came down from Sacramento and opened her house there was a flurry of animosity from the two incumbents."
King City, California
"I notice you changed your name. I want you to keep your new name. I guess you made up someplace you came from—well, that’s where you came from. And your reason—that’s when you’re maybe drunk—you keep your reason about two thousand miles away from King City."
Joss House, Salinas, California
"Remember the deep Waiting stroke of the great gong in the Joss House, and how its tone hung in the air so long?"
Castroville Street, Salinas, California
"From over on Castroville Street came the sweet sound of jingling horse bells from an eight-horse grain team down from the ridge."
Sacramento, California
"I sold the place in Sacramento for a very good price."
Monterey County Bank Building, Salinas, California
"At eight-thirty on a Wednesday morning Kate walked up Main Street, climbed the stairs of the Monterey County Bank Building, and walked along the corridor until she found the door which said, “Dr. Wilde—Office Hours 11-2.”"
Alisal, Salinas, California
"He had been out in the Alisal presiding at the disintegration of old, old lady German."
Gonzales, California
"Oscar Trip, up from Gonzales for Saturday night, said, “Well, it ought to have. It’s pretty.”"
Lang's Bakery, Salinas, California
"There was always some little delicacy, very special and good—foie gras or a tossed salad, pastry bought at Lang’s Bakery just across Main Street."
Salinas, California
"He knew most of the secrets, weaknesses, and the braveries of Salinas."
Europe
"Faye wasn’t very clever. "You know, Kate, I’d like to go to Europe."
King City, California
"In King City, Dr. Tilson felt him over. The doctor grew more testy with his overworked years."
Palo Alto, California
"Joe was off to college—to that school Leland Stanford had built on his farm near Palo Alto."
Salinas, California
"Dessie had her dressmaking business in Salinas."
San Francisco, California
"Mollie was married and living, believe it or not, in an apartment in San Francisco."
Connecticut, United States
"“I don’t have a Bible,” Adam said. “I left the family one in Connecticut.”"
County Derry, Northern Ireland
"…the last time I clobbered a human soul it was over a red-nosed girl and a Schoolbook in County Derry."
Egypt, Africa
"“Of all the people who started out of Egypt only two came to the Promised Land.”"
China, Asia
"“Millions,” said Lee. “We have more ghosts than anything else. I guess nothing in China ever dies.”"
Salinas Valley, California
"On the last half-mile, turning out of the Salinas Valley and driving up the unscraped road under the great oak trees…"
Oregon, United States
"…because her family frightened and embarrassed him, he took her away to the north, and it was black and lost where he went—somewhere on the borders of Oregon."
John Street, Salinas, California, United States
"and when in the morning Tom, his face black, spurred his spent horse up John Street in Salinas, the sheriff was waiting for him."
Main Street, Los Angeles, California
"You walked west on Main Street until it bent. That’s where Castroville Street crossed Main."
King City, California
"Tom brought Olive’s letter from King City, and because he knew what it contained he waited until he caught Samuel alone before he gave it to him."
Salinas, California
"We lived in Salinas and we knew when Tom had arrived—I think he always arrived at night—because under our pillows, Mary’s and mine, there would be packages of gum."
Southern Pacific Depot, Salinas, California, United States
"Horace walked up from the Southern Pacific Depot and stopped in the Chop House for breakfast."
Market Street, San Francisco, California
"Castroville Street is now called Market Street, God knows why."
Alisal Street, Salinas, California, United States
"Thus Castroville Street, if you followed it nine miles, brought you to Castroville, Alisal Street to Alisal, and so forth."
Alisal, Salinas, California
"Thus Castroville Street, if you followed it nine miles, brought you to Castroville, Alisal Street to Alisal, and so forth."
Frémont’s Peak, California, United States
"It was a pleasant afternoon. Frémont’s Peak was lighted pinkly by the setting sun, and Faye could see it from her window."
Frémont’s Peak, California, United States
"We started before the sun came up and drove in the rig straight toward Frémont’s Peak, and as we neared the mountains the stars would pale out and the light would rise to blacken the mountains."
Paso Robles, California, United States
"And his feelings will be hurt if we don’t visit him in Paso Robles."
China, Asia
"We all did. Haven’t you heard? The Dowager Empress is gone. China is free. The Manchus are not overlords and we do not wear queues. It was a proclamation of the new government. There’s not a queue left anywhere."
Chautauqua, New York, United States
"And the Chautauqua? Well, she didn’t have to go and probably wouldn’t."
Salinas Valley, California
"It was a deluge of a winter in the Salinas Valley, wet and wonderful."
Salinas Cemetery, Salinas, California
"The surreys and the buggies had driven out of the Salinas cemetery."
King City, California
"I’m from near King City," Adam said."
Salinas, California
"he reached it and turned east into the town of Salinas."
Castroville Street, Salinas, California
"It was a dirty gusty evening. Castroville Street was deep in sticky mud, and Chinatown was so flooded that its inhabitants had laid planks across the narrow street that separated their hutches."
Berkeley, California
"Look here! This is a professor at Berkeley. Comes all the way down here to have the toilet splashed in his face—professor of philosophy."
King City, California
"On the train back to King City from his trip to Salinas, Adam Trask was in a cloud of vague forms and sounds and colors."
Salinas, California
"On the train back to King City from his trip to Salinas, Adam Trask was in a cloud of vague forms and sounds and colors."
San Francisco, California
"He did have some little worry about Tom, who had gone directly from the funeral to San Francisco."
Salinas, California
"This night, the first after Adam’s return from Salinas, Cal and Aron were first astonished and then a little embarrassed to find that Adam listened to them and asked questions, looked at them and saw them."
China, Asia
"“It’s the same with us,” he said. “Nearly all Chinese get sent home to China after they die.”"
Canton, China
"They were recruited largely from Canton, for the Cantonese are short and strong and durable, and also they are not quarrelsome."
San Francisco, California
"In San Francisco the flood of muscle and bone flowed into cattle cars and the engines puffed up the mountains."
Sierras, California
"They were going to dig hills aside in the Sierras and burrow tunnels under the peaks."
San Francisco, California
"Before the letter got as far as San Francisco he was asking aloud in Lee’s hearing, “I wonder why he doesn’t answer. Maybe he’s mad at me for not writing. But he didn’t write either. No—he didn’t know where to write. Maybe he’s moved away.”"
Chicago, Illinois
"“Just call me Joe,” he said. “I ought to know it. Went to automobile school in Chicago. That’s a real school—not like no college.”"
King City, California
"One week after the lesson a Ford bumped up the main street of King City and pulled to a shuddering stop in front of the post office."
Connecticut, United States
"The left-hand corner of the envelope had printed on it, Bellows and Harvey, Attorneys at Law, and their address was the town in Connecticut from which Adam had come."
Salinas, California
"‘The fact that your wife is a whore in Salinas won’t change a thing.’"
King City, California
"“I’ll leave it at the stable in King City. I’m nervous about driving the Ford alone.”"
Salinas, California
"“What brings you up to Salinas, Mr. Trask?” she asked."
Reynaud’s French Bakery, Salinas, California
"Next to Reynaud’s French Bakery he saw Dessie’s house set back in its little garden."
122 Church Street, Salinas, California
"Mrs. Clarence Morrison of 122 Church Street, Salinas, had three children and a husband who ran a dry goods store."
San Francisco, California
"I try to get to San Francisco at least once a month."
Main Street, Los Angeles, California
"At John Street the road angled and became Main Street. Adam stamped the mud off his shoes when he reached the pavement."
Main Street, Los Angeles, California
"On an impulse he turned off Main Street and walked up Central Avenue to number 130, the high white house of Ernest Steinbeck."
King City, California
"Just some men. In the post office at King City. They didn’t think I could hear. But I got good ears."
Central Avenue, Los Angeles, California
"The family and friends went back to Olive’s house on Central Avenue to eat and to drink coffee, to see how each one was taking it, and to do and say the decent things."
Central Avenue, Los Angeles, California
"On an impulse he turned off Main Street and walked up Central Avenue to number 130, the high white house of Ernest Steinbeck."
Salinas Valley, California
"Later Samuel and Adam walked down the oak-shadowed road to the entrance to the draw where they could look out at the Salinas Valley."
Salinas, California
"I’ll see it in my mind when I’m in Salinas, listening to William Jennings Bryan."
Salinas River, California
"That year the rains had come so gently that the Salinas River did not overflow. A slender stream twisted back and forth in its broad bed of gray sand, and the water was not milky with silt but clear and pleasant."
Blanco, California, United States
"and this big red Swede has a ranch out near Blanco."
John Street, Salinas, California, United States
"At John Street the road angled and became Main Street."
Monterey Road, Los Angeles, California
"It was nearly a mile to the Monterey road. Adam was dirty and soaking when he reached it and turned east into the town of Salinas."
San Francisco Chop House, San Francisco, California
"The San Francisco Chop House was on the corner of Main and Central and its windows were on both streets."
Reynaud’s Bakery, Salinas, California
"Mrs. Morrison would go to the house next to Reynaud’s Bakery at two o’clock and she would stay until four."
San Francisco Chop House, San Francisco, California
"But Will, sitting scowling at the table in the San Francisco Chop House, had not been told."
King City station, King City, California
"Tom met Dessie at the King City station. She saw him out of the train window, scanning every coach for her."
Sargasso Sea, Atlantic Ocean
"Maybe she had recounted a meeting with Old Man Taylor, who bought old houses and moved them to a big vacant lot he owned until he had so many it looked like a dry‐land Sargasso Sea."
Salinas Valley, California
"It was a year when the people of the Salinas Valley forgot the dry years."
King City, California
"Tom Hamilton labored like a giant... He went to King City and studied a flush toilet and then built one of craftily bent tin and carved wood."
San Francisco, California
"As long as we’re talking about ourselves, have you ever thought that our whole world is the valley and a few trips to San Francisco, and have you ever been farther south than San Luis Obispo? I never have."
San Luis Obispo, California
"As long as we’re talking about ourselves, have you ever thought that our whole world is the valley and a few trips to San Francisco, and have you ever been farther south than San Luis Obispo? I never have."
Paris, France
"‘But isn’t that silly?’ … ‘We could go to Paris and to Rome or to Jerusalem. I would dearly love to see the Colosseum.’"
Rome, Italy
"‘But isn’t that silly?’ … ‘We could go to Paris and to Rome or to Jerusalem. I would dearly love to see the Colosseum.’"
Jerusalem, Israel
"‘But isn’t that silly?’ … ‘We could go to Paris and to Rome or to Jerusalem. I would dearly love to see the Colosseum.’"
Colosseum, Rome, Italy
"‘I would dearly love to see the Colosseum.’"
Ireland, Europe
"‘… That’s how our father came here from Ireland. And we could go to Ireland.’"
Athens, Greece
"… 'Egypt—have you given a thought to Egypt?' … 'Athens,' she said."
Constantinople, Turkey
"… 'Athens,' she said. 'Constantinople!"
Bethlehem, Palestine
"… 'Constantinople!' … 'Bethlehem!"
Monterey County, California
"‘I think I will call this The Great Monterey County Acorn Contest.’"
Athens, Greece
"Herodotus, in the Persian War, tells a story of how Croesus, the richest and most-favored king of his time, asked Solon the Athenian a leading question."
Salinas, California
"Lee helped Adam and the two boys move to Salinas, which is to say he did it all, packed the things to be taken, saw them on the train, loaded the back seat of the Ford, and, arriving in Salinas, unpacked and saw the family settled in Dessie’s little house."
San Francisco, California
"Cal asked, “Where’s he going?” “To San Francisco to live.”"
Salinas, California
"Salinas had two grammar schools, big yellow structures with tall windows, and the windows were baleful and the doors did not smile."
Blanco Road, Salinas, California
"The red sun leaned its rim on the rooftree of Tollot’s house on the Blanco Road, and Tollot’s chimney stuck up like a black thumb against it."
Salinas River, California
"The sun crept down toward its setting place behind the Salinas River, and a bird began to sing wonderfully from the golden stubble of the field."
Salinas, California
"February in Salinas is likely to be damp and cold and full of miseries."
Siberia, Russia
"‘Did you hear that somewhere up in Siberia they dug a mastodon out of the ice? It had been there a hundred thousand years and the meat’s still fresh.’"
Salinas Valley, California
"…and right here in the Salinas Valley we can raise them all the year around."
Chicago, Illinois
"In Chicago there developed a confusion of orders—no one’s fault—just one of those things that happen, and Adam’s six cars of lettuce stood in the yard for five more days."
Sacramento, California
"As the train came to Sacramento a snow slide closed the Sierras for two days and the six cars stood on a siding, dripping their ice away."
Sierras, California
"…a snow slide closed the Sierras for two days and the six cars stood on a siding, dripping their ice away."
Salinas, California
"Things do not change with a change of scene. In Salinas, Cal had no more friends than he had had in King City."
King City, California
"Things do not change with a change of scene. In Salinas, Cal had no more friends than he had had in King City."
San Ardo, California
"One night Cal ran into Rabbit Holman, who was up from San Ardo on his semi-annual drunk. Rabbit greeted Cal effusively, as a country man always greets an acquaintance in a strange place."
Salinas, California
"At intervals Salinas suffered from a mild eructation of morality."
Pajaro, California
"Twenty or more Chinese, imported from Pajaro, a few bums, six or eight drummers, who, being strangers, were not warned, fell into the police net, were booked, jailed, and in the morning fined and released."
Egypt, Africa
"… 'Egypt—have you given a thought to Egypt?"
China, Asia
"The boy looked in on the fan-tan games in Chinatown, but he didn’t play. It was a mystery, but then fairly simple things were mysteries to Tom Watson and he preferred to leave them that way."
Main Street, Los Angeles, California
"Since the East End School was way to hell and gone across town and the children who lived east of Main Street attended there, I will not bother with it."
Central Avenue, Los Angeles, California
"After a considered time he walked around the corner on Central Avenue and rang the bell of Adam Trask’s house."
Mount Toro, California, United States
"The evening star shimmered over Mount Toro."
Castroville Street, Salinas, California
"They left the house always in pairs, and Cal followed them with his eyes to the corner of Castroville Street, where they turned left toward Main Street."
Monterey County Bank, Monterey County, California
"The check was converted to large bills, and the bills in their bales were in the safe‐deposit box at the Monterey County Bank."
New York, New York
"She never felt quite well again. New York seemed cold and very far away."
Southern Pacific Hotel, Salinas, California
"“Where are you—staying now?” Kate asked, and Ethel replied, “Southern Pacific Hotel. I got a room.”"
Pajaro River, Monterey County, California
"While a deputy sheriff drove Ethel to the county line on the bridge over the Pajaro River, the scene unfolded."
Castroville Street, Salinas, California
"The complaining witness strolled down Castroville Street toward Kate’s, changed his mind and went back to Kenoe’s barbershop to get a hair cut."
Salinas Valley, California
"The Salinas Valley lived about as it always had."
King City, California
"Will drove a big Winton now, with a hood as long as a coffin and a powerful, panting mutter in its bowels. He drove south from King City over the county road, through the gathering forces of spring, and the meadowlarks flew ahead, bubbling melody from the fence wires."
Pico Blanco, California
"Pico Blanco stood up against the West with a full head of snow, and in the valley the lines of eucalyptus, which stretched across the valley to break the winds, were gleaming silver with new leaves."
Salinas, California
"In Salinas we were aware that the United States was the greatest and most powerful nation in the world."
Salinas Valley, California
"The nation and the Salinas Valley changed its songs."
Helgoland, Germany
"At first we sang of how we would knock the hell out of Helgoland and hang the Kaiser and march over there and clean up the mess them damn foreigners had made."
Salinas, California
"Lee had become American conservative in his clothes since he had lived in Salinas."
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Salinas, California
"The rectory of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church was large and rambling. It had been built for ministers with large families."
Stanford, California
"Aron was lonely at Stanford. His letters were drenched with lonesome longing for his girl. Together they were matter of fact, but from the university, ninety miles away, he made passionate love to her, shut himself off from the life around him."
San Quentin, California
"Kate had in her files a notation relating to one Joseph Venuta who had walked away from a San Quentin road gang in the fourth year of a five‐year sentence for robbery."
Watsonville, California
"Joe packed his suitcase, went to the depot, and bought a ticket for Watsonville."
Castroville, California
"At Castroville, the first station north, he got off and waited four hours for the Del Monte express from San Francisco to Monterey, which is at the end of a spur line."
San Francisco, California
"… waited four hours for the Del Monte express from San Francisco to Monterey…"
Monterey, California
"In Monterey he climbed the stairs of the Central Hotel, registered as John Vicker."
Santa Cruz, California
"I got it stuck in my mind. Give Santa Cruz a whirl. Know anybody?"
King City, California
"Hick came in from King City. Just sold his crop. Bought out the house."
San Luis Obispo, California
"… she said she had relatives in San Luis Obispo."
Salinas, California
"Maybe she came to Salinas sometimes. She might be in Salinas right now."
Santa Cruz County, California
"they dropped her over the line into Santa Cruz County. What did Ethel tell the deputy who drove her out?"
Reno, Nevada
"Maybe I might go to Reno or maybe to Seattle. Seaport towns—always good."
Seattle, Washington
"Maybe I might go to Reno or maybe to Seattle. Seaport towns—always good."
New York, New York
"Maybe he could come to her in New York. He would think she had always lived in an elegant little house on the East Side."
Salinas Valley, California
"Sometimes, but not often, a rain comes to the Salinas Valley in November."
France, Europe
"The war years were wet years, and there were many people who blamed the strange intransigent weather on the firing of the great guns in France."
Paris, France
"The Germans were not stopped. In fact, they had taken the initiative again, driving methodically toward Paris, and God knew when they could be stopped—if they could be stopped at all."
San Jose, California
"San Jose had a spy scare, and Salinas was not likely to be left behind—not the way Salinas was growing."
Salinas, California
"San Jose had a spy scare, and Salinas was not likely to be left behind—not the way Salinas was growing."
Watsonville, California
"Of course that made Watsonville get busy."
China, Asia
"“I'm going to try to make a winter melon soup,” he said. “Chinese cooking. I have a cousin in Chinatown, and he told me how."
Mexico City, Mexico
"Pershing’s expedition into Mexico after Villa had exploded one of our myths for a little while."
Main Street, Los Angeles, California
"Then she moved slowly along Main Street, looking in the store windows."
Central Avenue, Los Angeles, California
"He walked very fast in the gathering darkness, out Central Avenue, past the park and past Stonewall Jackson Smart’s house clear to the place beyond the streetlights where the street became a county road and angled to avoid Tollot’s farm house."
Southern Pacific Depot, Salinas, California, United States
"And the gangling, shuffling loose-jointed boys carrying suitcases were marching awkwardly down Main Street to the Southern Pacific Depot."
Pajaro River, Monterey County, California
"There was Pajaro, and that was a railroad section, and then the Pajaro River and the bridge into Watsonville."
Palo Alto, California
"Aron lived in a furnished room in Palo Alto, and he walked the mile to and from the campus every day."
Leland Stanford University, Stanford, California
"Leland Stanford University was not like that. A formal square of brown sandstone blocks set down in a hayfield; a church with an Italian mosaic front; classrooms of varnished pine; and the great world of struggle and anger re-enacted in the rise and fall of fraternities."
Salinas, California
"An institution was gone from Salinas, dark and fatal sex, as hopeless and deeply hurtful as human sacrifice."
Natividad, California
"Butch was in a hurry because he had to go out to Natividad to auction a small herd of white-face Herefords for the Tavernettis."
Alisal Street, Salinas, California, United States
"Cal turned down Alisal Street, went into the post office, and looked in the glass window of box 632."
Stone Street, Salinas, California, United States
"He walked to Stone Street where the Catholic church is and turned left, went past the Carriaga house, the Wilson house, the Zabala house, and turned left on Central Avenue at the Steinbeck house."
Southern Pacific Depot, Salinas, California, United States
"Under Adam’s urging they got to the Southern Pacific Depot half an hour before the train was due."
French Laundry, Salinas, California, United States
"Cal opened the front door a crack and saw Lee’s shoulders and head outlined against the white wall of the French Laundry across the street."
West End School, Salinas, California, United States
"Two blocks out Central he turned left past the West End School."
Mount Toro, California, United States
"Did you notice there’s snow on Mount Toro?"
Stanford, California
"sixteen members and two pledges from Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Stanford chapter, came in hilarious from a pledge hazing in San Juan."
San Juan, Puerto Rico
"sixteen members and two pledges from Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Stanford chapter, came in hilarious from a pledge hazing in San Juan."
Monterey County, California
"Sheriff Quinn held the office until 1919. He was sheriff so long that we growing up in Monterey County thought the words 'Sheriff' and 'Quinn' went together naturally."
Salinas Valley, California
"He was an institution, as much a part of the Salinas Valley as its mountains."
Santa Lucia Range, California
"wandering in the Santa Lucia range, camping by half-remembered streams."
San Leandro, California
"in the bell tower of the Methodist Church in San Leandro."
Salinas, California
"But every man in Salinas goes to the post office in the afternoon."
Reynaud’s Bakery, Salinas, California
"At Reynaud’s Bakery he bought a loaf of French bread, still warm and giving off its wonderful smell of fermented dough."
Main Street on Central Avenue, Salinas, California
"At quarter of one Sheriff Quinn turned off Main Street on Central Avenue."
Germany, Europe
"That winter of 1917-1918 was a dark and frightened time. The Germans smashed everything in front of them."
United Kingdom, Europe
"In three months the British suffered three hundred thousand casualties."
France, Europe
"Many units of the French army were mutinous."
Arlington, Virginia
"… 'He’s buried at Arlington. One clipping said the Vice President was at his funeral, and the Secretary of War.' …"
Salinas Valley, California
"The grain was slow coming up in the Salinas Valley, and the wildflowers came so late that some people thought they wouldn’t come at all."
San Francisco, California
"He had gone to San Francisco for the books he needed and had written for a number of separates."
Cantigny, France
"The First Division, General Bullard commanding, was ordered to capture the village of Cantigny."
Avre River valley, France
"The village, on high ground, dominated the Avre River valley."
Gabilan Mountains, California
"It’s a pleasant little stream that gurgles through the Alisal against the Gabilan Mountains on the east of the Salinas Valley."
San Francisco, California
"Both Lee and Cal tried to argue Adam out of going to meet the train, the Lark night train from San Francisco to Los Angeles."
China, Asia
"Joe ran like a rabbit, across the street and over the track toward the stores and alleys of Chinatown."
Stanford, California
"I wonder what dialect they speak at Stanford."
Main Street, Los Angeles, California
"Alf could tell you about everybody on both sides of Main Street."
San Jose, California
"Sergeant Axel Dane ordinarily opened the San Jose recruiting office at eight o’clock, but if he was a little late Corporal Kemp opened it, and Kemp was not likely to complain."
Russia
"Russia was out of the war."
Central Avenue, Los Angeles, California
"All day he sat cross-legged on his table in the little shop on Alisal Street, and in the evening he walked home to his small white house far out on Central Avenue."
Central Avenue, Los Angeles, California
"He walked to Stone Street where the Catholic church is and turned left, went past the Carriaga house, the Wilson house, the Zabala house, and turned left on Central Avenue at the Steinbeck house."
Salinas, California
"The train delivered quite a crowd for Salinas, returning relatives home for Thanksgiving, their hands entangled in cartons and gift-wrapped paper boxes."
Castroville Street, Salinas, California
"He climbed the high fence, found the two-by-twelve plank that served as a bridge across the slough of dark water, and came out between Lang's Bakery and the tinsmith's shop on Castroville Street."
Castroville Street, Salinas, California
"They walked toward Castroville Street."
Alisal Street, Salinas, California, United States
"All day he sat cross-legged on his table in the little shop on Alisal Street, and in the evening he walked home to his small white house far out on Central Avenue."
Salinas, California
"They passed the last streetlight on the very edge of Salinas, and blackness lay ahead of them and the road was unpaved and sticky with black ’dobe mud."
New York, New York
"‘Do you know where the biggest market for oranges in the winter is?’ ‘New York City. I read that.’"
New York, New York
"now he bought every book about war, read every report, subscribed to the New York papers, studied maps."
New York, New York
"‘Prettiest thing you ever saw. Had little tiny feet. Bought all her clothes in New York.’"
New York, New York
"Adam stopped in New York long enough to buy clothes for himself and Cathy before they climbed on the train which bore them across the continent."
Chicago, Illinois
"He arrived in Chicago, and there, for no reason, rented a furnished room for a week, stayed in it for two days, went to Buffalo, changed his mind, and moved to Niagara Falls."
Los Angeles, California
"Both Lee and Cal tried to argue Adam out of going to meet the train, the Lark night train from San Francisco to Los Angeles."
United States
"In Salinas we were aware that the United States was the greatest and most powerful nation in the world."
San Francisco, California
"in the lobby of the King City hotel he talked to the men who gathered around the stove and read the papers sent down from San Francisco."
China, Asia
"I want to open a bookstore in Chinatown in San Francisco. I would live in the back, and my days would be full of discussions and arguments."
China, Asia
"“Over across the tracks down by Chinatown there’s a row of whorehouses.”"
China, Asia
"If you turned left on that street and crossed the tracks you were in Chinatown. If you turned right you were on the Row."
China, Asia
"Castroville Street was deep in sticky mud, and Chinatown was so flooded that its inhabitants had laid planks across the narrow street that separated their hutches."
Main Street, Los Angeles, California
"At eight-thirty on a Wednesday morning Kate walked up Main Street, climbed the stairs of the Monterey County Bank Building, and walked along the corridor until she found the door which said, “Dr. Wilde—Office Hours 11-2.”"
Main Street, Los Angeles, California
"Cal moved slowly along Main Street, looking in store windows. He wondered where Kate was buried, and he laughed at himself for the impulse."
Main Street, Los Angeles, California
"“Oh!” said Aron. “There’s a man on Main Street, right on the street, and he’s got a little stove and he cooks sausages and puts them in buns. They cost a nickel. And you can take all the mustard you want.”"
Main Street, Los Angeles, California
"And the gangling, shuffling loose-jointed boys carrying suitcases were marching awkwardly down Main Street to the Southern Pacific Depot."
Main Street, Los Angeles, California
"They hurried up to Main Street and one short block and around the corner on Central past Reynaud’s with stacked French bread in the window and black-haired Mrs. Reynaud waved her flour-pale hand at them."
San Lorenzo, Venice, Italy
"Thus the first names of places were saints’ names or religious holidays celebrated at stopping places. We have San Miguel, St. Michael, San Ardo, San Bernardo, San Benito, San Lorenzo, San Carlos, San Francisquito."