- Social conditions, Labor camps, Migrant agricultural laborers, Agricultural laborers
Collects seven newspaper articles on migrant farm workers, squatters' camps and the Hoovervilles of California that the author wrote for "The San Francisco News" in 1936, providing the factual foundation for the "The Grapes of Wrath" published three years later.
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Earnest, grave, prestige and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- John Steinbeck
- First published
- 1964
- Pages
- 80
- Publisher
- Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio, Audible Studios on Brilliance, Heyday Books
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9781890771614
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John Steinbeck was an American writer. He wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel *The Grapes of Wrath* (1939) and the novella *Of Mice and Men* (1937). He wrote a total of 27 books, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and five collections of short stories. In 1962, Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature ([Source][1]). [1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck
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