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Mar 8, 2012 · The Grapes of wrath : Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
John Steinbeck. 1. OVERVIEW . Among the hardest-hit victims of the Great Depression were farmers. Dust storms in the Great Plains drove thousands of agricultural workers westward to California in hopes of finding work and new farms. John Steinbeck wrote about their problems in his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Grapes of Wrath.
The Grapes of Wrath. by John Steinbeck. About the Book. Introduction to the Book. Can a book top the bestseller list, win a Pulitzer Prize, save lives, and still be underrated? If that book is The Grapes of Wrath (1939), the answer is most definitely yes.
The Grapes of Wrath (Chapter 1), John Steinbeck. To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth. The plows crossed and recrossed the rivulet marks.
Mar 28, 2006 · John Steinbeck. Penguin, Mar 28, 2006 - Fiction - 528 pages. The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers. Nominated as...
Reading The Grapes of Wrath. Susan Shillinglaw, San José State University. Writing. Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath, edited by Robert DeMott tells of the March-October, 1938 writing of Grapes, a book written in 100 “working days.” “The new book is going well. Too fast. I’m having to hold it down.
The Grapes of Wrath was published while the American Great Depression—in which the economy went into freefall, destroying lives and livelihoods—had the country fully in its grip. This historical backdrop without a doubt amplified the number of people who could directly relate to the destitution Steinbeck describes.
