Quotes from John Steinbeck's books, and about them
East of Eden on 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.”
East of Eden on 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.”
East of Eden on Book of Common Prayer: “And on the floor were two books, the hymnal and the Book of Common Prayer, one on top of the other.”
East of Eden on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: ““What’s that book you’re hiding?” “Here, I’m not hiding it.” “Oh! Alice in Wonderland. You’re too big for that.” Cathy said, “I can get to be so little you can’t even see me.””
The Wayward Bus on Everyman: “The novel's epigraph is drawn from the late-fifteenth-century English morality play Everyman; per the endnotes, Steinbeck himself referred to it as "the lead" to the book.”
The Wayward Bus on Captain Hornblower: “She had a trunk stored with Loraine with some books in it—Captain Hornblower, and a Life of Beethoven, and some paper books of the short stories of Saroyan, and some old evening dresses to be made over.”
Burning Bright on The Tyger: Epigraph: "Tyger! Tyger! burning bright / In the forests of the night..." —WILLIAM BLAKE, from which the book takes its title.
11/22/63 on Of Mice and Men: “Also known as Lennie Small in George Amberson’s okay-for- high-school adaptation of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men.”
Hitch-22 on Tortilla Flat: “At the wild Saturnalia that climaxes John Steinbeck's Tortilla Flat, the charismatic Danny manages to lay so many women...”