East of Eden
Two generations of the Trask family settle in the Salinas Valley, where a father's love falls unevenly on two brothers and a woman without a conscience passes through. Their servant Lee takes a Hebrew word from the Cain story to a circle of scholars and finds it means neither prophecy nor command. 'Thou mayest' as the whole argument.
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- retells ↑ Genesis
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