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Who'd've thought: John Steinbeck’s classic novel 'The Grapes of Wrath' is only a little easier to read than children's book 'Mr Greedy'
In a study measuring language difficulty, statisticians have analysed the text of more than 33,000 books and determined ... less complex than that used in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath.
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The great American Dust Bowl novel inspired by a woman’s childhood on a dryland farm in Southeastern Colorado
This is exactly what happened to the late author Sanora Babb. Her inspiration began as a child in Southeastern Colorado after ...
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You can tour the Western Flyer, made famous by John Steinbeck, in Long Beach Saturday
The sardine boat built in 1937 was at the center of Steinbeck’s 1951 nonfiction book “The Log From the Sea of Cortez.” ...
‘The Artist of the Beautiful’: Hawthorne’s Tale of Creation and Conflict
The American writer’s symbolic yet vividly rendered story depicts a maker of small objects of ‘delicate ingenuity’ whose fellow townspeople refuse to recognize him as an artist.