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The Grapes of Wrath
| Author: | Steinbeck, John
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| Tags: | Classics Fiction Fiction / Literary Literary Literature - Classics / Criticism Migrant agricultural laborers Steinbeck, John | |
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| Language: | English | |
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This second volume in the authoritative edition of John Steinbeck (with "Novels and Stories, 1932-1937") features the Pulitzer-Prize winning masterpiece "The Grapes of Wrath" in a newly corrected text based on the author's manuscript, typescript, and galleys. "The Harvest Gypsies is Steinbeck's investigative report on migrant farm workers which laid the groundwork for the novel. "The Long... Show all...
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... They passed the crest and coasted down to cool the engine. They coasted down the long sweep to the floor of the desert, and the fan turned over to cool the water in the radiator. In the driver's seat, Tom and Al and Pa, and Winfield on Pa's knee, looked into the bright descending sun, and their eyes were stony, and their brown faces were damp with perspiration. The burnt land and the black, cindery hills broke the even distance and made it terrible in the reddening light of the setting sun. Al said, "Jesus, what a place....
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Apr 3, 2008 | Sergio Lopez Alvarez A true classis of American Literature. A must for those of us who think of America as the "land of opportunity".