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The Grapes of Wrath (The American Version of "Alive", an Epic That Records the Anger and Struggle of the American Bottom Class Under Natural Disasters and Economic Crises)
"The Grapes of Wrath" tells the story of the Yoder family who were impoverished due to drought, economic crisis, and financial and agricultural changes during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and were forced to travel from Oklahoma to California in search of work, land, dignity, and future. They sold everything in their home, drove a dilapidated car, and finally fled to California. However, everything in California was not as beautiful as they imagined...
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Of Mice and Men (Fruit Classic)
The mentally retarded Lenny often gets into trouble. Every time he gets into trouble, his good friend George takes him on the run and leads a wandering life. They came to a farm again, worked odd jobs here, and settled down. Lenny loves furry pets and his dream is to raise a litter of rabbits. After finally settling in on the new farm, Lenny got into trouble again. This time, the entire farm is after him. Good friend George always hoped that Lennie could escape far away, but in the end he was di
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Grapes of Wrath
"The Grapes of Wrath" is a representative novel by John Steinbeck, the 1962 Nobel Prize winner in Literature and the American critical realist writer. During the Great Depression in the United States in the 1930s, a large number of farmers went bankrupt and fled. The writer followed farmers in Oklahoma to wander to California. What he saw along the way shocked him. With his realistic writing style, he presented the unforgettable history in detail and thoroughly in the book. The novel is full of
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Jianbingping
Works of Nobel Prize-winning writers: A witty and interesting tragicomedy, made famous by John Steinbeck. In 1935, the Federal Club of California awarded the Gold Medal for the best work of the year by a California native. John Steinbeck (February 27, 1902 - December 20, 1968), American writer, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.
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Cannery Row
Works of Nobel Prize-winning writers: [How do Americans face life in the economic crisis? A book showing the spiritual outlook of the American classes during the Great Depression] The author writes: In order to find food, people who are afraid and hungry eat their stomachs in the fight; in order to get love, people who lack love destroy all the lovely parts of themselves in their desire. John Steinbeck said in his Nobel Prize speech: Literature is used to continuously expand knowledge of human b
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Grapes of Wrath
Without The Grapes of Wrath, there would be no The Kite Runner! ──Khaled Hosseini The classic work by Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. I don't know if it's heaven or hell, But there is our hope, and we must live... This is a touching legendary story. A sandstorm destroyed the Joad family's land and forced them to leave their home. They assembled a trailer out of scrap metal, piled all their belongings on it, and headed west along Route 66 to t
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Selected Foreign Classics (Six Volumes in Total)
This set includes: "The Red and the Black", "Vanity Fair (Volume 1 and 2)", "John Christopher (Volume 1 and 2)" and "The Grapes of Wrath". "Red and Black" is a masterpiece by Stendhal, the "father of modern novels", which records the struggle and broken dreams of little people. "Vanity Fair (Part 1 and 2)" is an enduring literary classic that depicts the helplessness of women who pursue independence and self-respect in a cruel and unfair society. "John Christopher (Part 1 and 2)" is a novel that
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East of Eden
Steinbeck, the Nobel Prize winner in literature and the author of "The Grapes of Wrath", is the pinnacle of his literary life. The film of the same name was directed by Elia Kazan and won an Academy Award! This reprint, which has been reprinted for many years, includes for the first time Steinbeck's 20,000 words of creative notes, showing the beginning and end of the creation of "East of Eden" and presenting the novel's time and space background and character creation. This is a family saga that
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Of Mice and Men
"Of Mice and Men" is a novella written by Steinbeck. It tells the tragic story of George and Lennie, two impoverished but dependent American migrant agricultural workers during the Great Depression in the United States in the 1930s, from having dreams, chasing dreams, getting close to dreams, to having their dreams shattered. The story reveals that in the United States, where the rich and the poor are divided and money is paramount, the loneliness of workers is eternal, the friendship between wo
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Of Mice and Men**
A friendship as golden as a mirage. Homeless workers George and Lennie are good friends who grew up together. Lennie, who has a mind like a child, keeps getting into trouble, and George has to take him on the run. The two have always dreamed of owning a piece of land of their own, where they could grow alfalfa and raise Lennie's beloved rabbits without ever having to be evicted again. But when they finally stopped wandering, their dreams came to an end...
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