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This volume brings together a variety of new, classic, and contemporary essays on this major American novel. Newlin's introduction compares the responses of the novel's early reviewers with those of actual Dust Bowl migrants, and, writing on behalf of The Paris Review, National Book Award winner Ha Jin celebrates Steinbeck's remarkable artistry. For readers studying The Grapes of Wrath for the first time, a quartet of new essays offer a comprehensive...
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Here are seven articles written by John Steinbeck in 1936 as he toured squatters camps and Hoovervilles in California's migrant labor region, led by his friend Tom Collins, manager of a federal migrant labor camp. Steinbeck's personal and literary response led him to dedicate the novel "The Grapes of Wrath" (1939) in part to Tom.
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"Few books have caused as big a stir as John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, when it was published in April 1939. By May, it was the nation's number one bestseller, but in Kern County, California--the Joads' newfound home--the book was burned publicly and banned from library shelves. Obscene in the Extreme tells the remarkable story behind this fit of censorship. When W.B. "Bill" Camp, a giant cotton and potato grower, presided over its burning in...
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"The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939 and considered by many to be John Steinbeck's crowning literary achievement, is a powerful and evocative examination of the lives of the working class during the Great Depression. It is the story of the Joads, a family of Oklahoma tenant farmers on a quest for a better life, as they head west to California where they become migratory workers. Steinbeck's compassionate and stark storytelling earned The Grapes...
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Tracing the social and political developments leading to the Dust Bowl, Owens clearly explains how the novel represents Steinbeck's indictment of the Promised Land myth.
First published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads -- driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California....
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