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The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. [2] The book won the National Book Award [ 3 ] and Pulitzer Prize [ 4 ] for fiction, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962.
The Grapes of Wrath: John Steinbeck: Jay Parini identified it as "a great American novel" due to its focus on United States during a crisis and the eclectic depiction of American life. Richard Rodriguez, similarly, felt that it was "the great American novel that everyone keeps waiting for" because of how it showed "the losers in America". [61]
Huckleberry "Huck" Finn is a fictional character created by Mark Twain who first appeared in the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and is the protagonist and narrator of its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884). He is 12 to 13 years old during the former and a year older ("thirteen to fourteen or along there", Chapter 17) at the ...
The Grapes of Wrath takes place during The Great Depression and, like many of Steinbeck's novels, is set in California. The following is a complete list of books published by John Steinbeck, one of the foremost American authors of the 20th century.
Whose Names Are Unknown is an American novel by Sanora Babb, written in the 1930s but not published until 2004.It centers on members of a High Plains farm family during the Great Depression as they endure the poverty inflicted by drought and the Dust Bowl; they ultimately flee to California in hopes of building a better life but encounter a new set of hardships.
Robert DeMott was born in New Canaan, Connecticut, in 1943, the only child of James and Colletta DeMott.Until the age of eight, he lived with his parents on the estate of well known political artist and fine-art illuminator Arthur Szyk, who published The New Order (1941) and Ink & Blood (1946) and illustrated numerous Biblical and literary texts, as well as the 1948 Declaration of the ...
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1973), by Robert James Dixson – a simplified version [64] Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a 1985 Broadway musical with lyrics and music by Roger Miller [65] Manga Classics: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, published by UDON Entertainment's Manga Classics imprint was released in November 2017. [66]
Notes on the Text and Chronology in John Steinbeck: Novels and Stories, 1932-1937. The Library of America. Notes/Notes on the Text pp. 1051–1067. ISBN 1-883011-01-9; DeMott, Robert. 1996. Notes on the Text in John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath and Other Writings, 1936-1941. The Library of America. Notes/Notes on the Text pp. 1051–1067.