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• Grapes of Wrath, The
  Grapes of Wrath, The

  noun

  a novel (1939) by John Steinbeck.
• The Grapes of Wrath
  The Grapes of Wrath

  (1939) A novel by John Steinbeck about the hardships of an American farm family in the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression. Forced off the land, they travel to California to earn a living harvesting fruit.

Grapes of Wrath, The

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noun

1. a novel (1939) by John Steinbeck.

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The Grapes of Wrath Cultural  

1. (1939) A novel by John Steinbeck about the hardships of an American farm family in the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression. Forced off the land, they travel to California to earn a living harvesting fruit.

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The title is from “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.”

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Elsewhere, they’re the common castoffs worth saving, or sanctifying as salt-of-the-earth: Meet John Doe, Sullivan’s Travels, The Grapes of Wrath, The Soloist.

From Slate ● Aug. 9, 2017

Censortship is American apple pie: "The Grapes of Wrath", The Catcher in The Rye", "The Naked and The Dead", "Howl", "Leaves of Grass", Invisible Man", Southern school texts to this day?

From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2016

There is lean, youthful Gregg Toland, who grabbed last year's Oscar with his eerie effects in Wuthering Heights, has this year supplied two more candidates with The Grapes of Wrath, The Long Voyage Home.

From Time Magazine Archive

By June 1939, "The Grapes of Wrath" had sold over 200,000 copies, and film rights to the book had been sold for $75,000.

From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2024

Second contestant’s response: What is "The Grapes of Wrath"?

From Fox News ● Aug. 20, 2021

It’s an environmental tragedy central to John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, written while the author benefited from a New Deal federal arts grant.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 20, 2020

The American author's 1939 Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Grapes of Wrath was rated marginally higher at 4.9.

From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2019

The Grapes of Wrath was fine with me.

From "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe" by Benjamin Alire Saenz