Travels with Charley in Search of America

Penguin Classics commemorates the 50th anniversary of Steinbeck's Nobel Prize with two stunning new editions of his best-loved worksAt age fifty-eight, John Steinbeck and his poodle, Charley, embarked on a journey across America. This chronicle of their trip meanders from small towns to growing cities to glorious wilderness oases. Still evocative and awe-inspiring after fifty years, Travels with Charley in Search of America provides an intimate look at one of America's most beloved writers in the later years of his life — a self-portrait of a man who never wrote an explicit autobiography. Written during a time of upheaval and racial tension in the South — which Steinbeck witnessed firsthand — Travels with Charley is a stunning evocation of America on the eve of a tumultuous decade.