Dec 20, 2009

The Grapes of Wrath | Related Titles

Both in setting and theme, The Grapes of Wrath is kin to In Dubious Battle. The California setting is common to most of Steinbeck's best fiction, however, and the focus on down-and-out characters struggling for survival in California links this work with Tortilla Flat (1935), Of Mice and Men (1937), and others in the Steinbeck canon. The stories in The Long Valley (1938) also fall in this category. In some ways, Steinbeck tried to repeat the success he enjoyed in The Grapes of Wrath in another long novel, East of Eden (1952). Like its...