Fiction
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
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John Steinbeck's sweeping multigenerational novel follows the Trask and Hamilton families in California's Salinas Valley, reworking the biblical story of Cain and Abel to explore the novel's central Hebrew concept 'timshel' — that humans have the freedom to choose good over evil.
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