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The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

Society & Class 1939

Summary

The Joad family, Oklahoma tenant farmers ruined by the Dust Bowl, joins the mass migration west to California and finds exploitation instead of the promised land. Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of the Great Depression.

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John Steinbeck

American novelist and Nobel laureate (1902–1968) who wrote about the struggles of working-class Americans, particularly the dispossessed farmers of California during the Great Depression. His work combines social realism with deep compassion.

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1939
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John Steinbeck