Gutenberg´s Bible 
"To a God Unknown"
Ancient pagan beliefs, the great Greek epics, and the Bible all inform this extraordinary novel, which occupied Steinbeck for more than five difficult years. While fulfilling his dead father's dream of creating a prosperous farm in California, Joseph Wayne comes to believe that a magnificent tree on the farm embodies his father's spirit. His brothers and their families share in Joseph's prosperity, and the farm flourishes—until one brother, frightened by Joseph's pagan belief, kills the tree, allowing disease and famine to descend on the farm. Set in familiar Steinbeck country, To a God Unknown is a mystical tale, exploring one man's attempt to control the forces of nature and, ultimately, to understand the ways of God and the forces of the unconscious within.
It was one of the books that left a mark in me! I was thirteen, I think, when I read it. Joseph Wayne, the Tree, the scene with the bull. The relationship that we can find between the man and the land is so rude/violent/tough/cruel in this book, we almost can feel everything. It´s so scary!
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