The Grapes of Wrath
Steinbeck’s classic novel of the Great Depression is as vivid now as ever. The story focuses on a family of Oklahoma sharecroppers, farmers who work another man’s land for a share of the crops. Driven from their home by drought and poverty they take to the road in a battered old truck and make their way to California to look for work. When they arrive they find hundreds of others like them being forced to work for breadline wages. they begin working as fruit pickers, strike-breakers replacing th
ISBN: 9780895773876
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Nelson Mandela
Politics & Government"I read many American novels, and recall especially John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, in which I found many similarities between the plight of the migrant workers in that novel and our own laborers and farm-workers."
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Christopher Hitchens
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Jordan Peterson
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Michelle Obama
Politics & Government"I reread The Grapes of Wrath with the girls, too."
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