Book Series

Cannery Row

John Steinbeck Monterey Novels

by John Steinbeck

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See the full Cannery Row reading order for all books in the series.

About Cannery Row

Cannery Row (1945) is Steinbeck's most lyrical and affectionate novel — a portrait of the inhabitants of the Monterey waterfront (the marine biologist Doc, the Palace Flophouse residents, and the girls from the Bear Flag) that celebrates people who exist outside the economic system and find in friendship and small pleasures a complete life. Written for his friend Ed Ricketts, who was the model for Doc, it is Steinbeck's most purely comic and celebratory work.

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