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East of Eden

John Steinbeck

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1952
Pages
Pages 620

Two families replay Cain and Abel across the Salinas Valley, and everything turns on one Hebrew word suggesting that sin is not destiny: thou mayest rule over it.

Thou mayest, Thou mayest! What glory!
East of Eden, John Steinbeck

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