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In Dubious Battle
by John Steinbeck
At once a relentlessly fast-paced, admirably observed novel of social unrest and the story of a young man's struggle for identity, set in the California apple country, where a strike by migrant workers against rapacious landowners spirals out of control, as a principled defiance metamorphoses into blind fanaticism. Caught in the upheaval is Jim Nolan, a once aimless man who find himself in the course of the strike, briefly becomes its leader, and is ultimately crushed in its service.
Year: 1936
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
While the powerlessness of the laboring class is a recurring theme in Steinbeck's work of the late 1930s, he narrowed his focus when composing "Of Mice and Men", creating an intimate portrait of two men facing a world marked by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy, and callousness.
Year: 1937
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
The story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads--driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity.
Year: 1939
| Got It | Want It | Read It | Year | Title | |||||||
| -- | -- | -- | 1936 | In Dubious Battle | by John Steinbeck | ||||||
| -- | -- | -- | 1937 | Of Mice and Men | by John Steinbeck | ||||||
| -- | -- | -- | 1939 | The Grapes of Wrath | by John Steinbeck | ||||||