| Edition |
[Second edition] / updated with Kevin Hearle. |
| Description |
xxi, 712 pages : maps ; 20 cm. |
| Series |
The Viking critical library |
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Viking critical library.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [701]-712). |
| Contents |
Essays: California's Grapes of wrath / Frank J. Taylor -- California pastoral / Carey McWilliams -- The reception of The grapes of wrath in Oklahoma -- The background of the composition of The grapes of wrath / Jackson J. Benson -- "Working days and hours" : Steinbeck's writing of The grapes of wrath / Robert DeMott -- Suggestion for an interview with Joseph Henry Jackson / John Steinbeck -- The philosophical Joads / Frederic I. Carpenter -- The grapes of wrath as fiction / Peter Lisca -- Machines and animals : pervasive motifs in The grapes of wrath / Robert J. Griffin and William A. Freedman -- The grapes of wrath and the esthetics of indigence / John R. Reed -- Tom's other trip : psycho-physical questing in The grapes of wrath / Patrick W. Shaw -- Steinbeck and nature's self : The grapes of wrath / John J. Conder -- The American Joads / Louis Owens -- The ending of The grapes of wrath : a further commentary / John Ditsky -- From "Happy (?)-wife-and-motherdom" : the portrayal of Ma Joad in John Steinbeck's The grapes of wrath / Nellie Y. McKay -- The grapes of wrath : Steinbeck and the eternal immigrant / Mimi Reisel Gladstein. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR UG 4.9 25.0 5983. |
| Subject |
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968. Grapes of wrath.
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Migrant agricultural laborers -- Fiction.
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Migrant agricultural laborers in literature.
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Labor camps in literature.
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Rural families -- Fiction.
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Depressions -- Fiction.
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Labor camps -- Fiction.
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California -- In literature.
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California -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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| Added Author |
Lisca, Peter.
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Hearle, Kevin, 1958-
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| ISBN |
0140247750 paperback |
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9780140247756 paperback |
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