“And so I will tell them one of the greatest, perhaps the greatest story of all—the story of good and evil, of strength and weakness, of love and hate, of beauty and ugliness.”
Having declared he was writing East of Eden for his sons, Steinbeck immediately named the story he most wanted to hand them: not a comfortable story, not a simple one — the great story, the one that contains everything.
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