Europe, at this time, would merit the attentions of the US Depression-era author John Steinbeck.
Clive Cox's Glorious Goodwood winner Xtension was a nose adrift in third, with Steinbeck a neck back in fourth.
History and classic novels by Hemingway, Faulkner and Steinbeck topped his list of favorites.
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Beethoven was buried deep in the pack as Steinbeck forged an early lead.
Most of what remains pays their rent for a trailer in Watsonville, just outside Steinbeck's home town of Salinas.
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Knief counted herself a Steinbeck devotee, having briefly met him during one of his research outings to the area.
There are also a number of English set texts: To Kill a Mockingbird is one, Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men is another.
In amongst a forest of redwoods, it overlooks the pristine wilderness of the central coast that so famously inspired Kerouac, Miller and Steinbeck.
As Tom Joad in Steinbeck's novel discovered, many farmworkers, even as they spend their waking hours picking food for others, can barely afford to eat.
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Actor James Franco, star of Sam Raimi's Wizard of Oz prequel, is to make his Broadway debut in the John Steinbeck classic Of Mice and Men.
The 33-1 chance was unfancied by punters after Johnny Murtagh chose stable companion Steinbeck, but with Ryan Moore on board he finished with a flourish alongside another Ballydoyle challenger Fencing Master.
" 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.
As Knief headed back to Bakersfield, her vacation done, she motored along Route 66, the same stretch of highway on which the migrants "scuttled like bugs to the westward, " as Steinbeck wrote.
Schulz, novelist John Steinbeck, piano maker Henry E.
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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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