Depicts the hardships and suffering endured by the Joads as they journey from Oklahoma to California during the Depression.
Muncie , IN : Ball State University Steinbeck Research Institute , 1990 . Heavilin , Barbara A. , ed . The Critical Response to John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath . Westport , CT : Greenwood Press , 2000 . John Steinbeck's The Grapes ...
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Presents the drama version of Steinbeck's story of the Joad family's struggle for survival during the Depression.
But he admitted that growers had been wrong to insist up until the early 1970s that laborers use a shorthandled hoe, “stoops” bending over rows of lettuce and strawberries. (“A man . . . must crawl like a bug between the rows of lettuce ...
The second volume in The Library of America’s authoritative edition of John Steinbeck features his acknowledged masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath. Written in an incredibly compressed five-month period, the novel...
Written with empathy for the farmers’ plight, this powerful narrative is based upon the author’s firsthand experience. Babb submitted the manuscript for this book to Random House for consideration in 1939.
An epic story of the nineteen-thirties' Depression which traces the story of one destitute family among the thousands who fled the Dust Bowl to the promise of California, THE GRAPES...
Presents a collection of critical essays on Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, arranged in chronological order of publication.
The journal, like the novel it chronicles, tells a tale of dramatic proportions—of dogged determination and inspiration, yet also of paranoia, self-doubt, and obstacles.
The Harvest Gypsies gives us an eyewitness account of the horrendous Dust Bowl migration, and provides the factual foundation for Steinbeck’s masterpiece.