Renaissance Man of Cannery Row

Author: Edward F. Ricketts
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 081735087X

Renaissance Man of Cannery Row: The Life and Letters of Edward F. Ricketts (Alabama Fire Ant)

This portrait of one of John Steinbeck's closest friends illuminates the life and work of a figure central to the development of scientific and literary thought in the 20th century. Get Renaissance Man of Cannery Row literature books for free.
/b>Marine biologist Edward F. Ricketts is perhaps best known as the inspiration for John Steinbeck's most empathic literary characters Doc in Cannery Row, Slim in Of Mice and Men, Jim Casy in The Grapes of Wrath, and Lee in East of Eden. The correspondence of this accomplished scientist, writer, and philosopher reveals the influential exchange of ideas he shared with such prominent thinkers and artists as Henry Miller, Joseph Campbell, Ellwood Graham, and James Fitzgerald, in addition to Steinbeck, all of whom were drawn to Ricketts's Check Renaissance Man of Cannery Row our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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/b>Marine biologist Edward F The correspondence of this accomplished scientist, writer, and philosopher reveals the influential exchange of ideas he shared with such prominent thinkers and artists as Henry Miller, Joseph Campbell, Ellwood Graham, and James Fitzgerald, in addition to Steinbeck, all of whom were drawn to Ricketts's

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