The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
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Title: The Grapes of Wrath
Author: John Steinbeck
Type of book: Novel
Genre: Historical fiction, realism, epic, social critique
Original language: English
Written in: Los Gatos, California, from May to October 1938
First published: 1939
Narrator: An omniscient, unnamed narrator, socially conscious, compassionate, and enraged by the plight of the migrant workers
Point of view: Third-person omniscient
Tense: Past, with occasional present tense passages
Set in: Depression-era, late 1930s Oklahoma, California, and the road between
Protagonist: Tom Joad
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