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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 13 Apr 1939, p. 32

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I RAPES 0F WRATU4 I Dy John Steinbe....... $2.75 rbTe tiovois of John StilbecI: *~ Aflrst Study LIDIAUT Utatlumetl Igreat cleta il, giving every stageof the journey which: a family makes fromn Oklahoma to the promîsed land 'whIch isCalifornia. Eitterly 'and *wthout glossing over any of the de- tails, he, tells about those homestead- _ers who were ousted from their farms by land owners, backed by the. govérnment, and wlio packed their belongings into trucks, and set sail over the macadam roads of the wést for a land that would offer them a chance to work. Not only wouid there be plenty of everything in that land but, the labor of their hands would be sought, and.they .couid establish homes for themselves once more and cease being a part'of that great. 'w John Ste:i apes of Wrat ýeck novel, ,.,i beina an, historie ai novel with -a British settingi upon which he, is now work- ing, he wvas comâmissionied' by a London publisher to write a srnall brochure on John Steinbeck, in an effort to introduce hi s novels t o the same popuiarity 'in' England which they have. enjoyed in this country. Upon, Mr. Moore's, return to this country, lie was induced by the'Chi-* cago publishing firm, -Normandie House, to expand this study to book form. 'Steinbeck Map With a new type face and a new bind ing The, Nov els'of John'Steit-; beck by Mr., Moore appears this week, sirnuitaneously with Stein- hbck's innorpl.TheGzfqr,neof Wqrth. Men" . wunh incidents in the autnor's 111e, et back to. and "0f Mice and i etr f'h tdavlm were reg- tinna eare fth- tdy vlm 1a grand- hne but otherwise exactiy trhe forth hope- story cornes when the Irish patriots sarne measurements as the binding and delay with pikes for weapons, charge the of The Grapes of Wraffh. Stein- land, oniy Britishi artillery, and win., beck's six novels - "Pastures of east a doz- Miss Johnston recreates history. Heaven," "Cup of Gold,-" Tortilla at there is Like *ber earlier Irish story, Hanging "Fiat," "Ini Dubious BattUe," "0f ig nytingJohny, this book brings' back some Mice and Men," and -Grapes of gn anthing of the most dramatie moments i Wrath"-are ail examined critical- oneo thing Ireland' s past. It iswritten with an iy from the viewpoint of the man's ignornnt close under our observ Impossible to believe thé har( these people endure, for thal liopelessness could exist in th(: of the free. The real heroinei famiiy is the mother, wlio cý on, despite. every fresh advE and who will not give Up lier d in oboth literati and the general BuhL mibsreadter. ~uc~e O niusMr. Moore dlaimns that four years This is the way the New York ago,ina article on Amnerican liter- "Herald Tribune" greets the Amer- ature which he wrote for 'the "Lon- ican publication of the flrst John don Mercury," he predicted Stein- Buchan omnibus: "Good news' for. beck's greatness. A native Califor- those who have lost, mislaid or loan- nian, himnself, as a child Harry ed.their copies of 'The Thirty-nine Moore visited regions later to be- Steps,' 'Greenmantle' a n d 'Mr. corne the Steinbeck country. At 17 ýse ileywart.. eàt thmg for the truly de- i-clerical-he gave not .Qnly 1but the Godly, their due." 4 t I - jandl the.1 1 story by

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