John Steinbeck's nonfiction revisited /

Best known as a novelist - especially for The Grapes of Wrath, his heartfelt portrayal of disenfranchised dustbowl farmers in the 1930s - John Steinbeck nonetheless devoted a good portion of his literary energies to nonfiction. In this study, Warren French looks at the entire body of Steinbeck'...

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Main Author: French, Warren G., 1922-2009
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : London : Twayne Publishers ; Prentice Hall International, [1996]
Series:Twayne's United States authors series ; TUSAS 662.
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