![]() ![]() Irving was even trashed by his first biographer, Stanley T. ![]() Like Irving, Steinbeck has suffered from perverse detractors. This Library of America volume, the final of four collecting Steinbeck's oeuvre, contains those last works, the novels "The Wayward Bus," "Burning Bright," Sweet Thursday" and "The Winter of Our Discontent," and the nonfiction "Travels With Charley in Search of America." "When an author is dead, he is judged by his best works."Įxcept, that is, in the case of John Steinbeck, whose best works ("The Grapes of Wrath," "Tortilla Flat") have often been judged as less than good, and whose last works as proof of just how bad he was. "When an author is living, he is apt to be judged by his last works," Washington Irving wrote. "TRAVELS WITH CHARLEY AND LATER NOVELS, 1947-1962," by John Steinbeck, edited by Robert DeMott and Brian Railsback, Library of America, 990 pages, $40 ![]()
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