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Grapes of Wrath, The
     
Grapes of Wrath, The
(1939) a novel by John Steinbeck which describes how a family called Joad have to leave their farm in the Dust Bowl in the US state of Oklahoma during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and the difficulties they have in moving to California and trying to work on farms there
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