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The Grapes of Wrath: LitPlan Teacher Pack
60,000 words, approx. 200 pages
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The Grapes of Wrath: Puzzle Pack
42,000 words, approx. 140 pages
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The Grapes of Wrath Quotes
878 words, approx. 3 pages
 The Grapes of Wrath ( 1939 ) is a classic American novel by John Steinbeck . It tells the saga of Tom Joad , his family and his friends, as they try to survive the Great Depression . Page numbers based on Penguin edition, 1992, ISBN 0141185066 I gotta...




| Name: |
John Ernst Steinbeck | | Birth Date: |
February 27, 1902 | | Death Date: |
December 20, 1968 | | Place of Birth: |
Salinas, California, United States | | Place of Death: |
New York, New York, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
writer |
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Biography of John Ernst Steinbeck
800 words, approx. 2.7 pages
 John Ernst Steinbeck (1902-1968), American author and winner of the Nobel Prize in 1962, was a leading exponent of the proletarian novel and a prominent spokesman for the victims of the Great Depression. John Steinbeck was born on Feb. 27, 1902, in Salin...
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Biography of John Ernst Steinbeck
17621 words, approx. 58.7 pages
 Through a career which spanned four decades, John Steinbeck was a novelist of people. His best books are about ordinary men and women, simple souls who do battle against dehumanizing social forces or who struggle against their own inhumane tendencies and...
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Biography of John (Ernst) Steinbeck
16102 words, approx. 53.7 pages
 Throughout a career which spanned four decades, John Steinbeck was a novelist of people. His best books are about ordinary men and women, simple souls who do battle against dehumanizing social forces or who struggle against their own inhumane tendencies...



Encyclopedia and Summary Information

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The Grapes of Wrath Summary
889 words, approx. 3 pages Written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939, The Grapes of Wrath describes the Depression era journey of the fictional Joad family from the Dust Bowl of Oklahoma to the agricultural fields of California. A film version of the novel, directed by...
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The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - 1939 Summary
10,306 words, approx. 34 pages The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - 1939 Introduction The Grapes of Wrath (1939) shines light into the darkest corners of the American dream. It is John Steinbeck's greatest novel and an undisputed American classic, but upon publication, the...
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The Grapes of Wrath Summary
3,799 words, approx. 13 pages The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Born and raised in California, John Steinbeck portrays in many of his writings the beauty and agricultural promise that attracted thousands to that state during the Great Depression. He also examines the social...
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The Grapes of Wrath Information
3,078 words, approx. 10 pages
 The Grapes of Wrath is a classic novel published in 1939 and written by John Steinbeck, who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature. It is frequently read in American high school and college literature classes. A celebrated...




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 The New York Observer
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1/22/2008: 288 words, approx. 1 pages Museum of the Moving Image at 35th Avenue and 36th Street in Astoria, Queens, is in the midst of a massive Ford at Fox retrospective that has already shown such John Ford silents as Just Pals (1920), The Iron Horse (1924), and Four Sons (1928),...
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On Georgia Trip, Loden Dager Designers Find Models, Steinbeck's Ghost
1/1/2008: 300 words, approx. 1 pages The fashionistas behind men’s wear collective Loden Dager are this week’s guest bloggers on T Magazine’s Web site. Today, the New York-based designers—Melissa Vail, Matthew Sandager, Oliver Helden, Paul Marlow and Alex Galan—wrote in during their road trip to Georgia, where they’re hoping to find...
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1998 AFI list of top-100 movies
6/21/2007: 496 words, approx. 2 pages The American Film Institute's original 1998 list of the top-100 American movies:1. "Citizen Kane," 1941.2. "Casablanca," 1942.3. "The Godfather," 1972.4. "Gone With the Wind," 1939.5. "Lawrence of Arabia," 1962.6. "The Wizard of Oz," 1939.7. "The Graduate," 1967.8. "On the Waterfront," 1954.9. "Schindler's List," 1993.10. "Singin'...
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2007 AFI list of top-100 movies
6/21/2007: 493 words, approx. 2 pages The American Film Institute's 2007 list of the top-100 American movies:1. "Citizen Kane," 1941.2. "The Godfather," 1972.3. "Casablanca," 1942.4. "Raging Bull," 1980.5. "Singin' in the Rain," 1952.6. "Gone With the Wind," 1939.7. "Lawrence of Arabia," 1962.8. "Schindler's List," 1993.9. "Vertigo," 1958.10. "The Wizard of Oz,"...




Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by William Howarth
10,315 words, approx. 34 pages
 In the following essay, Howarth explores the influence of Steinbeck's experience as a journalist, as well as the photographic and documentary works of his time on social issues during the Depression, in his writing of The Grapes of Wrath.
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Critical Essay by Nellie Y. McKay
8,410 words, approx. 28 pages
 In the following essay, McKay examines the ways in which the women in The Grapes of Wrath subvert stereotypical gender roles.
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Critical Essay by David N. Cassuto
7,954 words, approx. 27 pages
 In the following essay, Cassuto argues that the farmers' move from east to west—and the ultimate failure of this move—in The Grapes of Wrath is an “indictment” of the American myths of the garden and the frontier as places of refuge and unlimited potential, and that these myths surrounding the American West have historically created ecological disaster.
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Muley Graves' Role in "The Grapes of Wrath"
1,256 words, approx. 4 pages
 The role of the character of Muley Graves in the classic novel "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck and the character's symbolism in the book.


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