"photo montage constrained to a subsection of the screen resembling a rear-view mirror. Depressed U.S. Route 66-area American scenes were featured; though set in the 1990s, many could have passed for the 1930s. Occasionally a line from the song would flash on the screen. The song opened most of the shows on the 1995–1997 solo acoustic Ghost of Tom Joad Tour, and gave audience members a clear indication as to what the night would be like. (For a few shows before and after a September 1996 Woody Guthrie-oriented benefit concert, he played ""Tom Joad"" instead.) On February 26, 1997, while"
"The Red Pony The Red Pony is an episodic novella written by American writer John Steinbeck in 1933. The first three chapters were published in magazines from 1933–1936, and the full book was published in 1937 by Covici Friede. The stories in the book are tales of a boy named Jody Tiflin. The book has four different stories about Jody and his life on his father's California ranch. Other main characters include Carl Tiflin – Jody's father; Billy Buck – an expert in horses and a working hand on the ranch; Mrs. Tiflin – Jody's mother; Jody's grandfather – Mrs."
"Purvis in 'Tom Joad' — is the protagonist of John Steinbeck's ""The Grapes of Wrath"". Hannibal Lecter appears as the head of the Department of Health, and John Rambo helps train Vietnamese Communists. Rambo is played in a film by Raymond Massey. Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart appears as a British officer in ""Teddy Bears' Picnic"" (though ""Doctor Who"" is referred to as fiction in the same story), as do Nigel Molesworth and Basil Fotherington-Thomas. Back in the USSA Back in the USSA () is a collection of seven short stories by Eugene Byrne and Kim Newman, which was published in 1997 by"
"Rosa's stretch of Route 66 is part of film history. When John Steinbeck's epic novel, ""The Grapes of Wrath"", was made into a movie, director John Ford used Santa Rosa for the memorable train scene. Tom Joad (Henry Fonda) watches a freight train steam over the Pecos River railroad bridge, into the sunset. It was also one of the shooting scenes for ""Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw"" starring Lynda Carter in the titular role. The town was the childhood home of author Rudolfo Anaya, and is the basis for the fictional town of Guadalupe in his autobiographical novel ""Bless Me,"
"To a God Unknown To a God Unknown is a novel by John Steinbeck, first published in 1933. The book was Steinbeck's third novel (after his unsuccessful ""Cup of Gold""). Steinbeck found ""To a God Unknown"" extremely difficult to write; taking him roughly five years to complete, the novella proved more time-consuming than either ""East of Eden"" or ""The Grapes of Wrath"", Steinbeck's longest novels. In this short novel, Steinbeck explores the relationship of man to his land. The plot follows a man, Joseph Wayne, who moves to California in order to establish a homestead. He is joined by his"
"novels, such as ""East of Eden"". To a God Unknown To a God Unknown is a novel by John Steinbeck, first published in 1933. The book was Steinbeck's third novel (after his unsuccessful ""Cup of Gold""). Steinbeck found ""To a God Unknown"" extremely difficult to write; taking him roughly five years to complete, the novella proved more time-consuming than either ""East of Eden"" or ""The Grapes of Wrath"", Steinbeck's longest novels. In this short novel, Steinbeck explores the relationship of man to his land. The plot follows a man, Joseph Wayne, who moves to California in order to establish a"
"The Grapes of Wrath The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1962. Set during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on the Joads, a poor family of tenant farmers driven from their Oklahoma home by drought, economic hardship, agricultural industry changes, and bank foreclosures forcing tenant farmers out of work. Due to their nearly hopeless situation, and in part because they are trapped in the"
"""The Ghost of Tom Joad"") came from this book, specifically Ford's penchant for speaking in cliches. In 2013, the Norwegian band The Launderettes released their album ""Getaway,"" which was inspired by the novel. The band uses the album as a ""means to end the story differently."" Lou Ford later appears in Thompson's novel ""Wild Town"" (1957). The Lou Ford character in ""Wild Town"" is a mirror image of the one in ""Killer Inside Me"". In ""Wild Town"" Lou Ford is also a sheriff, he also plays the fool, and he is also smarter and more capable than anyone else in"
"in Bill Willingham's ""Fables"" series. He is a member of anti-Fabletown Farm revolution and can be seen later on various occasions, mostly as a non-speaking character. In most recent comics, his gravestone is shown among the other fables buried at The Farm. The character appears in ""The Wolf Among Us""— a downloadable episodic video game set during the 1980s, before the events of ""Fables"" — where he is still alive and appears as a non-player character. Mr. Toad Mr. Toad, of Toad Hall, is one of the main characters in the novel ""The Wind in the Willows"" by Kenneth Grahame"
"library of Dr Richard Mead, physician to George II, was ""Tom Jones"". Mead was a strong and active advocate for Fielding's work, which relates to Fielding's keen interest in the Jacobite rising of 1745. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known simply as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. It is both a ""Bildungsroman"" and a picaresque novel. It was first published on 28 February 1749 in London, and is among the earliest English prose works to be classified as a novel. It is"
"Mr. Toad Mr. Toad, of Toad Hall, is one of the main characters in the novel ""The Wind in the Willows"" by Kenneth Grahame and also the title character of the A. A. Milne play ""Toad of Toad Hall"" based on the book. Mr. Toad is an anthropomorphic common toad who is the village squire, being the wealthy owner and occupant of Toad Hall. Toad is very rich and a bit of a fop, with a penchant for Harris tweed suits. He owns his own horse, and is able to indulge his impulsive desires, such as punting, house boating and"
"The Wayward Bus The Wayward Bus is a novel by American author John Steinbeck, originally published in 1947. The novel's epigraph is a passage from 15th-century English play ""Everyman"", with its archaic English intact; the quotation refers to the transitory nature of humanity. Although considered one of Steinbeck's weaker novels at the time of its original publication, ""The Wayward Bus"" was financially more successful than any of his previous works. Steinbeck dedicated this novel to ""Gwyn"", thought to be a reference to his second wife Gwyndolyn Conger. The couple divorced less than a year after the book was published. No"
"Tom a Lincoln Tom a Lincoln is a romance by the English writer Richard Johnson, published in two parts in 1599 and 1607. The principal character, Tom, is a bastard son of King Arthur and a girl named Angelica. He is the father of two other important characters, the Black Knight and the Faerie Knight. Part I begins with the story of Tom's birth: he is the product of an illicit affair between King Arthur and Angelica, the Lord Mayor of London's daughter. To conceal their adultery, Arthur and Angelica secretly send their child to be raised by Antonio, a"
"John Steinbeck John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. (; February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American author. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature ""for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception."" He has been called ""a giant of American letters,"" and many of his works are considered classics of Western literature. During his writing career, he authored 27 books, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories. He is widely known for the comic novels ""Tortilla Flat"" (1935) and ""Cannery Row"" (1945), the multi-generation epic"
"of Tom Joad"" song, after reading Dale Maharidge's 1985 book """", illustrated by Michael Williamson. ""Journey to Nowhere"" chronicled the story of middle class Americans who lost their jobs and had become hobos riding freight trains like in the Great Depression. The stories of dying steel towns inspired ""Youngstown"" and the stories of boxcar hobos inspired ""New Timer"". In an interview with BBC Radio, Springsteen stated that his connection to this song was ""probably through my own kids and my own job, in the sense that the thought of being told after 30 years or so, that what you're doing"
"warn the wearer of attempts to poison them. Shakespeare mentioned this in ""As You Like It"": Mr. Toad Esq. is one of the main characters in the children's novel ""The Wind in the Willows"", by Kenneth Grahame. This has been dramatized by several authors including A. A. Milne who called his play ""Toad of Toad Hall"". Mr. Toad is a very conceited, anthropomorphic toad and in the book he composes a ditty in his own praise which starts like this: George Orwell in his essay ""Some Thoughts on the Common Toad"" described the emergence of the common toad from hibernation"
"The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known simply as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. It is both a ""Bildungsroman"" and a picaresque novel. It was first published on 28 February 1749 in London, and is among the earliest English prose works to be classified as a novel. It is the earliest novel mentioned by W. Somerset Maugham in his 1948 book ""Great Novelists and Their Novels"" among the ten best novels of the world. It totals 346,747 words divided into 18 smaller books,"
"National Steinbeck Center in Salinas. John Steinbeck John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. (; February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American author. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature ""for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception."" He has been called ""a giant of American letters,"" and many of his works are considered classics of Western literature. During his writing career, he authored 27 books, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories. He is widely known for the comic novels ""Tortilla Flat"" (1935) and ""Cannery"
"Frog and Toad Are Friends Frog and Toad Are Friends is an American children's picture book, written and illustrated by Arnold Lobel and published by Harper & Row in 1970. It inaugurated the Frog and Toad series, whose four books completed by Lobel comprise five easy-to-read short stories each. It was a Caldecott Honor Book, or runner-up for the American Library Association Caldecott Medal, which recognizes the year's best illustration in an American children's picture book. Frog rushes over to Toad's house one fine spring morning in April, but Toad is not eager to get up. Frog eventually gets Toad"
"Steinbeck's best-selling novel from 1939 ""The Grapes of Wrath"", starring Henry Fonda and directed by John Ford. He portrayed the role of ""Winfield Joad"", the youngest member of a family trying to cope with the hardships of The Great Depression. The film was a critical and commercial success, with Ford winning an Academy Award for Best Director, while actress Jane Darwell won for Best Supporting Actress. Another notable role during this time included the war-time melodrama ""The Human Comedy"", where he played a mentally slow child. Hickman made a featured appearance as well as ""Frank"" in the 1942 ""Our Gang"""
"East of Eden (novel) East of Eden is a novel by Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck, published in September 1952. Often described as Steinbeck's most ambitious novel, ""East of Eden"" brings to life the intricate details of two families, the Trasks and the Hamiltons, and their interwoven stories. The novel was originally addressed to Steinbeck's young sons, Thom and John (then 6½ and 4½ years old, respectively). Steinbeck wanted to describe the Salinas Valley for them in detail: the sights, sounds, smells, and colors. The Hamilton family in the novel is said to be based on the real-life family of"
"the novel ranges from Tom’s boyhood to the heights of his performing career, the inscrutable savant is buffeted by opportunistic teachers and crooked managers, crackpot healers and militant prophets. In his symphonic novel, Jeffery Renard Allen blends history and fantastical invention to bring to life a radical cipher, a man who profoundly changes all who encounter him. At the heart of this remarkable novel is Thomas Greene Wiggins, a nineteenth-century slave and improbable musical genius who performed under the name Blind Tom. In 1866, Tom and his guardian, Eliza Bethune, struggle to readjust to their fashionable apartment in the City"
"Act V, where he sneaks on board a truck full of timber and witnesses the death of Macbeth before killing the maid and being directed home by Macduff. Fleance's line ""The moon is down, I have not heard the clock"" was the inspiration for the title of John Steinbeck's 1942 short novel ""The Moon is Down"". Fleance's line foreshadows the evil encompassing the kingdom. The book was published just as the United States entered World War II and signalled the threat of the Axis powers by outlining the events in a European town occupied by foreign powers. Steinbeck's book became"
"The House of the Toad The House of the Toad is a Cthulhu Mythos horror novel by the author Richard L. Tierney. It was published by Fedogan & Bremer in 1993 in an edition of 1,050 copies of which 100 were numbered and signed by the author and illustrator. The novel concerns James Kerrick, an archaeologist and black marketeer who sells artifacts from a lost city in Mexico. He soon discovers himself the focus of a conspiracy of ancient cults. Various of the evil characters are servitors of the Primal Ones, incredibly ancient and powerful entities which sowed life throughout"
"work was ""Tom Jones"" (1749), a meticulously constructed picaresque novel telling the convoluted and hilarious tale of how a foundling came into a fortune. The plot of ""Tom Jones"" is too ingeniously complicated for simple summary; its basis is Tom's alienation from his foster father, Squire Allworthy, and his sweetheart, Sophia Western, and his reconciliation with them after lively and dangerous adventures on the road and in London. The triumph of the book is its presentation of English life and character in the mid-18th century. Every social type is represented, and through them every shade of moral behavior. Fielding's varied"
"his ego, likewise confuses the plot. In directing the picture, Mr. Milestone has adopted a frankly casual style which further invests the proceedings with a languid quality."" The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: The Red Pony (1949 film) The Red Pony is a 1949 Technicolor Western drama film based on John Steinbeck's 1937 novella of the same name. Steinbeck also wrote the screenplay for this film. A young boy, Tom Tiflin (Peter Miles), is given a small pony by his father (Shepperd Strudwick). Tom asks the stable helper, Billy Buck (Robert Mitchum), to help him"
"Toad Hall (The Wind in the Willows) Toad Hall is the fictional home of Mr. Toad, a character in the 1908 novel, ""The Wind in the Willows"", by Kenneth Grahame. On his retirement from the Bank of England in 1908, Grahame returned to Blewbury in Berkshire, the county in which he had grown up. In October that year he published ""The Wind in the Willows"", a novel for children featuring an array of anthropomorphic characters, including Rat (a water vole), Mole, Badger and Toad. Toad lives in a house on the edge of the River Bank, Toad Hall. The novel"
"as a single song—""Tom Joad""—on Patrick Street's second album, ""No. 2 Patrick Street"". The song ""Here Comes that Rainbow Again"" by Kris Kristofferson (1981) is based on the scene in the roadside diner where Pa Joad buys a loaf of bread and two candy sticks for Ruthie and Winfield. The band The Mission UK included a song, titled ""The Grapes of Wrath"", in their album ""Carved in Sand"" (1990). The progressive rock band Camel released an album, titled ""Dust and Dreams"" (1991), inspired by the novel. American rock singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen named his 11th studio album, ""The Ghost of Tom"
"Richard Lineback Richard D. Lineback (born February 4, 1952) is an American actor. He has performed in character roles in such blockbuster films as ""Speed"", ""Twister"" and ""Varsity Blues"". He played Deputy Dodd in """". Lineback has appeared in many roles on the stage, with leads that include Tom Joad in ""The Grapes of Wrath"", C.C. Showers in ""The Diviners"", for which he won the Drama-Logue Award for Outstanding Actor, and the title role in ""Mister Roberts"". He has also made numerous guest appearances for television, including Romas in """", Selin Peers in """" and Kessick in """". He also"
"the nod for the lead role in ""You Only Live Once"" (1937), also costarring Sidney, and directed by Fritz Lang. He was a critical success opposite Bette Davis, who had picked him, in the film ""Jezebel"" (1938). This was followed by the title role in ""Young Mr. Lincoln"" (1939), his first collaboration with director John Ford, and that year he played Frank James in ""Jesse James"" (1939). Another 1939 film was ""Drums Along the Mohawk"", also directed by Ford. Fonda's successes led Ford to recruit him to play Tom Joad in the film version of John Steinbeck's novel ""The Grapes"
"Guy Reynard and (the Prussian Baron Reinhardt); Joey Pechorin (also Joey Narchosis and Judas) Don MacChuill (also Don Coyote, Don Quixote) and Seamus Finnan (Shammus, Finnegan, Prometheus, Samuel Hobbsbaum, Sammael). From a psychoanalytic point of view, the seven main characters can also be seen as the Super-ego as guiding conscience (Guy/Reynard), the wild and libidinous Id (Jack), the Anima and Animus as a triple goddess/god figure (Phreedom), the “inner child” of the Self (Thomas), the Ego that has to deal with society and reality (Seamus), the Shadow as the dark side (Joey), and the wise hermit or old soldier as"
"rut, and everyone gets back on. The novel ends with San Juan de la Cruz visible in the distance. A black-and-white film version of ""The Wayward Bus"" was released in 1957, with a cast including Jayne Mansfield, Joan Collins, Dan Dailey and Rick Jason. Much of the dramatic action in Steinbeck's novel consists of internal monologues, which the film version does not render. The movie was released in May 1957 at the height of Mansfield's popularity and enjoyed some box office success despite middling reviews. The Wayward Bus The Wayward Bus is a novel by American author John Steinbeck, originally"
"Frog and Toad Frog and Toad are the main characters in a series of easy-reader children's books, written and illustrated by Arnold Lobel (who also wrote ""Mouse Soup""). Each book contains five simple, often humorous, sometimes poignant, short stories chronicling the exploits of a frog and his friend, a toad. Some of their adventures include: attempting to fly a kite, cleaning Toad's dirty house as opposed to waiting until ""Tomorrow"", and figuring out the ethics of being ""Alone"". Frog is taller with a green shade, and is more cheery and relaxed than Toad; Toad is shorter and stout with a"