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The biblical God of the wilderness is never far away, though never spelt out. Steinbeck mirrors that picture of God in Exodus 16. He comes in our moments of vulnerability, but only at the point of desperation, and even then only with basics: manna and water, bread and wine, roll and soup.
- Biblical Wilderness in The Grapes of Wrath
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- Biblical Wilderness in The Grapes of Wrath
Steinbeck's first novel, Cup of Gold, published in 1929, is loosely based on the life and death of privateer Henry Morgan. It centers on Morgan's assault and sacking of Panamá Viejo, sometimes referred to as the "Cup of Gold", and on the women, brighter than the sun, who were said to be found there. [21]
Last week Novelist John Steinbeck, in Stockholm to accept his Nobel Prize for literature, suggested a new gospel to match the beliefs and ambitions of modern man.
During the decade of the 1930s Steinbeck wrote most of his best California fiction: The Pastures of Heaven (1932), To a God Unknown (1933), The Long Valley (1938), Tortilla Flat (1935), In Dubious Battle (1936), Of Mice and Men (1937) and The Grapes of Wrath (1939).
Mar 9, 2018 · The Way of Jesus traces a modern pilgrim’s progress touched by John Steinbeck, Robert Frost and William Faulkner. More on Jay Parini’s book at SteinbeckNow.com.
May 29, 2024 · John Steinbeck, American novelist, best known for The Grapes of Wrath (1939), which summed up the bitterness of the Great Depression decade and aroused widespread sympathy for the plight of migratory farmworkers. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.
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Jan 27, 2024 · John Steinbeck, American novelist, is best known for The Grapes of Wrath which summed up the bitterness of the Great Depression and aroused widespread sympathy for the plight of migratory farmworkers.
