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To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the light— these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had been...
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To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the light— these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had been...
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ravels with Charley: In Search of America is a travelogue by American author John Steinbeck. It documents the road trip he took with his french poodle Charley around the United States in 1960.
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In A Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letter, the writer's diary of East of Eden, Steinbeck calls the novel “...the story of my country and the story of me.”
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The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft agley [often go wrong] And leave us nought but grief and pain For promised joy!
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Clinging to each other in their loneliness and alienation, George and his simple-minded friend Lennie dream, as drifters will, of a place to call their own.
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Set during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on a poor family of sharecroppers, the Joads, driven from their home by drought, economic hardship, and changes in the agriculture industry.
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Steinbeck often populated his stories with struggling characters, and his stories drew on real historical conditions and events in the first half of the 20th century.
