A New Adaption of ‘East of Eden’—Please Read the Book First

Henry T. Edmondson III suggests reading John Steinbeck's 1952 novel East of Eden before viewing a new adaptation of the work.

The novel retells the Genesis account of evil entering paradise and the subsequent expulsion of humanity. Edmondson III notes that the book explores the reality of evil, the freedom to choose between good and evil, and the potential for redemption. Steinbeck, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962, considered East of Eden to be his most important novel.