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Travels with Charley

in search of America

  • 4.1 (15 ratings) ·
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  • 10 Currently reading
  • 26 Have read

In September 1960, John Steinbeck and his poodle, Charley, embarked on a journey across America. A picaresque tale, this chronicle of their trip meanders along scenic backroads and speeds along anonymous superhighways, moving from small towns to growing cities to glorious wilderness oases.

Travels with Charley is animated by Steinbeck's attention to the specific details of the natural world and his sense of how the lives of people are intimately connected to the rhythms of nature - to weather, geography, the cycles of the seasons. His keen ear for the transactions among people is evident, too, as he records the interests and obsessions that preoccupy the Americans he encounters along the way.

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Penguin Books
Language
English
Pages
210

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Die Reise mit Charley: Auf der Suche nach Amerika
Oct 01, 2015, Zsolnay-Verlag
hardcover
Cover of: Viajes con Charley en busca de Estados Unidos
Viajes con Charley en busca de Estados Unidos
2014, Nórdica
in Spanish
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Viajes con Charley
2014, Nórdica Libros
in Spanish
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Travels with Charley: in search of America
2012, Penguin Books
in English - 50th-anniversary ed., Penguin Classics deluxe ed.
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Travels with Charley in Search of America
Jun 29, 2011, Penguin Audio
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Travels with Charley
2008, Penguin Group UK
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Viajes Con Charley En Busca De América
Mar 19, 2008, Ediciones Península
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Die Reise mit Charley. Auf der Suche nach Amerika.
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2002, Penguin Books
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Travels with Charley: in search of America
2002, Penguin Books
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Travels with Charley (Penguin Modern Classics)
March 1, 2001, Penguin Books Ltd
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Travels With Charley
January 2000, Franklin Watts, Incorporated
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2000, G.K. Hall
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Travels With Charley
October 1999, Tandem Library
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1997, Penguin Books
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Travels with Charley (Mandarin Classic)
December 11, 1995, Mandarin
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1995, Mandarin
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Travels with Charley (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
February 2, 1995, Penguin Audiobooks
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Voyage avec Charley
May 18, 1995, Phébus
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Travels with Charley
August 1, 1994, Highbridge Audio
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Travels with Charley in Search of America
1993, Penguin Group (USA), Inc.
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Podróze z Charleyhem: W poszukiwaniu Ameryki.
1991, SAWW
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Travels with Charley
May 1990, Mandarin
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1986, ISIS Large Print
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Travels with Charley in search of America
1986, ISIS Large Print
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Travels with Charley: in search of America
1986, Penguin Books
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January 1985, Sudamericana
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1980, Penguin Books
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Travels with Charley
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Travels With Charley
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1975, Watts
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1973, Heinemann
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TRAVELS WITH CHARLEY
1971, Pan Books Ltd
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Travels with Charley in Search of America
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1968, Bantam Books
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1965, Pan Books
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1963, Viking Press
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1962, Viking Press
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Travels with Charley
September 1962, William Heinemann Ltd
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1962, Viking Press
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Travels with Charley: in search of America.
1962, The Companion Book Club
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Travels with Charley in search of America
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Travels With Charley: In Search of America
Jul 27, 1962, Viking Press
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1962, Viking Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxiii]).

Published in
New York, N.Y., U.S.A
Series
Penguin twentieth-century classics
Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
818/.5203, B
Library of Congress
E169.Z8 S83 1997, E169.02.S83 1997, E169.02 .S83 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxii, [1], 210 p. ;
Number of pages
210

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL972911M
Internet Archive
travelswithcharl0000stei_i4j4
ISBN 10
0140187413
LCCN
96009794
OCLC/WorldCat
35029506
Library Thing
5518
Goodreads
1038467

Work Description

A quest across America, from the northernmost tip of Maine to California's Monterey Peninsula To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the tress, to see the colors and the light—these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had been writing about for so many years. With Charley, his French poodle, Steinbeck drives the interstates and the country roads, dines with truckers, encounters bears at Yellowstone and old friends in San Francisco. And he reflects on the American character, racial hostility, on a particular form of American loneliness he finds almost everywhere, and on the unexpected kindness of strangers that is also a very real part of our national identity. "Pure delight, a pungent potpourri of places and people interspersed with bittersweet essays on everything from the emotional difficulties of growing old to the reasons why giant sequoias arouse such awe." — The New York Times Book Review "Profound, sympathetic, often angry...an honest moving book by one of our great writers." — The San Francisco Examiner "This is superior Steinbeck—a muscular, evocative report of a journey of rediscovery." — John Barkham, Saturday Review Syndicate "The eager, sensuous pages in which he writes about what he found and whom he encountered frame a picture of our human nature in the twentieth century which will not soon be surpassed." — Edward Weeks, The Atlantic Monthly

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