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Grapes of Wrath

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Don Graham Commentary: “The Grapes of Wrath” has Outlived Its Relevance

May 13, 2019 by Rachel White

Eighty years after John Steinbeck wrote the classic American novel The Grapes of Wrath, it remains a hardy perennial on many high school reading lists. But a casual survey of sixty-six upper-division English majors at the University of Texas in March of this year reveals that forty-nine students have not read the novel and that […]

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