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The Grapes of Wrath
Literature · 1939
John Steinbeck
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Literature 1939

The Grapes of Wrath

Dust Bowl exodusmigrant-family furycollective American grief
Author
John Steinbeck
Year
1939
Region
United States
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Steinbeck’s classic novel of the Great Depression is as vivid now as ever. The story focuses on a family of Oklahoma sharecroppers, farmers who work another man’s land for a share of the crops. Driven from their home by drought and poverty they take to the road in a battered old truck and make their way to Californi...

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Dust Bowl exodus Dust Bowl exodusmigrant-family fury
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John Steinbeck, 1939 — The Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck’s classic novel of the Great Depression is as vivid now as ever. The story focuses on a family of Oklahoma sharecroppers, farmers who work another man’s land for a share of the crops. Driven from their home by drought and poverty they take to the road in a battered old truck and make their way to Californi...

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Steinbeck’s classic novel of the Great Depression is as vivid now as ever. The story focuses on a family of Oklahoma sharecroppers, farmers who work another man’s land for a share of the crops. Driven from their home by drought and poverty they take to the road in a battered old truck and make their way to Californi...
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