East of Eden is a novel by American author and Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck. Published in September 1952, the work is regarded by many to be Steinbeck's most ambitious novel and by Steinbeck himself to be his magnum opus.

The towering figure of Adam Trask dominates this great American novel. Adam was a good man--until strange, beautiful, insatiable Cathy Ames came into his life. Cathy revealed to him the shuddering ecstasies of passion. She taught him the dark lessons of evil--and Adam, a good man, learned to embrace evil ...