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The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck

In extreme detail, John Steinbeck illustrates the lives of ordinary people struggling to conserve their humanity in the face of social and economic desperation. When the Joads lose their tenant farm in Oklahoma, they join thousands of others, traveling the narrow concrete highways toward California and the dream of a piece of land to call their own again. Each night on the road, they and their fellow migrants recreate society: leaders are chosen, unspoken codes of privacy and generosity evolve. It is a portrait of the bitter conflict between the powerful and the powerless, one man's fierce reaction to injustice, and a woman's quiet, stoical strength. The Grapes of Wrath captures the horrors of the Great Depression as it probes into the very nature of equality and justice in USA.

John Ernst Steinbeck (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was born in Salinas, California, on February 27, 1902. He attended Stanford University without......

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