But what about instruct, I hear you grumble over your dog-eared copy of "The Grapes of Wrath"?

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We are now in the age of MTV and mass conspicuous consumption, not of the grapes of wrath.

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Good news: It totally doesn't matter that you barely cracked "The Grapes of Wrath" or "Light in August" sophomore year.

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" After the convention, the truck will travel nationwide selling Penguin releases, following the famed Route 66 journey in one of the publisher's most celebrated novels: John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath.

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The troupe's name: The Grapes of Wrath Players.

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The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.

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And on the eve of the publication of The Grapes of Wrath, she had lauded him as "one of our major creative writers in America today, " a literary force on par with Faulkner, Hemingway, Saroyan, and Dos Passos.

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The most articulate and powerful of the finger-pointers was author John Steinbeck, whose book The Grapes of Wrath had not only leapt onto the best-seller list after its publication in April but was also well on its way to becoming seared into the public's imagination forever.

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Good Samaritans, looking to raise money to aid the migrants, would hold "Grapes of Wrath" parties.

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In April 1996, the Israeli armed forces launched an operation code-named "Grapes of Wrath", which was intended to wipe out Hezbollah's base in southern Lebanon.

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