"Joad"" (1995), after the character. The first track on the album is titled ""The Ghost of Tom Joad"". The song – and to a lesser extent, the other songs on the album – draws comparisons between the Dust Bowl and modern times. Rage Against the Machine recorded a version of ""The Ghost of Tom Joad"" in 1997. Like Andy Irvine in 1988, Dick Gaughan recorded Woody Guthrie's ""Tom Joad"" on his album ""Outlaws & Dreamers"" (2001). An opera based on the novel was co-produced by the Minnesota Opera, and Utah Symphony and Opera, with music by Ricky Ian Gordon and"
"journey by Tom Joad through America during the Great Depression, and often made Christian allusions to sacrifice and redemption in a world of social injustice. The book was commonly referenced in African American slave narratives, such as ""Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom"" by Ellen and William Craft, to emphasize the moral and religious implications of slavery. Hannah Hurnard's novel ""Hinds' Feet on High Places"" (1955) uses a similar allegorical structure to ""The Pilgrim's Progress"" and takes Bunyan's character Much-Afraid as its protagonist. Sir Walter Scott uses Bunyan's tale in chapter 32 of his novel ""The Heart of Midlothian"" (1818)"
"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,"
"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"
"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"
"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 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."
"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"
"journey of HMS ""Beagle"" at the intersection of science, natural history and travel. A number of writers famous in other fields have written about their travel experiences. Examples are Samuel Johnson's ""A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland"" (1775); Charles Dickens' ""American Notes for General Circulation"" (1842); Mary Wollstonecraft's ""Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark"" (1796); Hilaire Belloc's ""The Path To Rome"" (1902); D. H. Lawrence's ""Twilight in Italy and Other Essays"" (1916); ""Mornings in Mexico and Other Essays"" (1927); Rebecca West's ""Black Lamb and Grey Falcon"" (1941); and John Steinbeck's """" (1962). In"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"Travels with Charley Travels with Charley: In Search of America is a travelogue written by American author John Steinbeck. It depicts a 1960 road trip around the United States made by Steinbeck, in the company of his standard poodle, Charley. Steinbeck wrote that he was moved by a desire to see his country on a personal level, since he made his living writing about it. He wrote of having many questions going into his journey, the main one being, ""What are Americans like today?"" However, he found that he had concerns about much of the ""new America"" he witnessed. Steinbeck"
"the collecting expedition. The novel was adapted into the 1955 Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical ""Pipe Dream"", which was nominated for nine Tony Awards. The movie version of the book's predecessor, ""Cannery Row"", incorporates several of the story lines in ""Sweet Thursday"". Sweet Thursday Sweet Thursday is a 1954 novel by John Steinbeck. It is a sequel to ""Cannery Row"" and set in the years after the end of World War II. According to the author, ""Sweet Thursday"" is the day between Lousy Wednesday and Waiting Friday. Doc returns to a failed Western Biological Laboratories after serving in the army"
"before Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The book reached #1 on the New York Times Best Seller list (Non-Fiction) on October 21, 1962, where it stayed for one week, being replaced by Rachel Carson's ""Silent Spring"" on October 28. In the Steinbeck novel ""The Pastures of Heaven"", one of the characters regards Robert Louis Stevenson's ""Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes"" as one of the single greatest works of English literature and eventually names his infant son Robert Louis. Later on, Steinbeck and his wife Elaine were inspired by Stevenson in choosing the title ""Travels with"
"Street Band for a few new songs recorded for his first ""Greatest Hits"" album (a recording session that was chronicled in the documentary ""Blood Brothers""), and also one show at Tramps in New York City, he released his second folk album, ""The Ghost of Tom Joad"", inspired by John Steinbeck's ""The Grapes of Wrath"" and by ""Journey to Nowhere: The Saga of the New Underclass"", a book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Dale Maharidge and photographer Michael Williamson. This was generally less well-received than the similar ""Nebraska"", due to the minimal melody, twangy vocals, and political nature of most of the"
"nevertheless considered to be truthful and valuable. Published in 2012, the 50th anniversary edition of ""Travels With Charley"" included a disclaimer by Parini, who wrote: Travels with Charley Travels with Charley: In Search of America is a travelogue written by American author John Steinbeck. It depicts a 1960 road trip around the United States made by Steinbeck, in the company of his standard poodle, Charley. Steinbeck wrote that he was moved by a desire to see his country on a personal level, since he made his living writing about it. He wrote of having many questions going into his journey,"
"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"
"(1902–1968) was born in Salinas, California, where he set many of his stories. His style was simple and evocative, winning him the favor of the readers but not of the critics. Steinbeck often wrote about poor, working-class people and their struggle to lead a decent and honest life. ""The Grapes of Wrath"", considered his masterpiece, is a strong, socially-oriented novel that tells the story of the Joads, a poor family from Oklahoma and their journey to California in search of a better life. Other popular novels include ""Tortilla Flat"", ""Of Mice and Men"", ""Cannery Row"", and ""East of Eden"". He"
"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"
"of Eden"", James Dean's film debut. """" is a travelogue of his 1960 road trip with his poodle Charley. Steinbeck bemoans his lost youth and roots, while dispensing both criticism and praise for America. According to Steinbeck's son Thom, Steinbeck made the journey because he knew he was dying and wanted to see the country one last time. Steinbeck's last novel, ""The Winter of Our Discontent"" (1961), examines moral decline in America. The protagonist Ethan grows discontented with his own moral decline and that of those around him. The book has a very different tone from Steinbeck's amoral and ecological"
"campaign. He was 19 years old at the time. John Steinbeck's 1939 novel ""The Grapes of Wrath"" won the Pulitzer Prize for its controversial characterization of the Okie lifestyle and journey to California. In James Blish's ""Cities in Flight"" science fiction series, the term ""Okie"" was applied in a similar context to entire cities that, thanks to an anti-gravity device, take flight to the stars in order to escape an economic collapse on Earth. Working as a migrant labor force, these cities act as cultural pollinators, spreading technology and knowledge throughout the expanding human civilization. The later novels focus on"
"writing, as authors have sought to evaluate an era that caused both financial and emotional trauma. Perhaps the most noteworthy and famous novel written on the subject is ""The Grapes of Wrath"", published in 1939 and written by John Steinbeck, who was awarded both the Nobel Prize for literature and the Pulitzer Prize for the work. The novel focuses on a poor family of sharecroppers who are forced from their home as drought, economic hardship, and changes in the agricultural industry occur during the Great Depression. Steinbeck's ""Of Mice and Men"" is another important novella about a journey during the"
"tells of traveling throughout the United States in a specially made camper he named Rocinante, after Don Quixote's horse. His travels start in Long Island, New York, and roughly follow the outer border of the United States, from Maine to the Pacific Northwest, down into his native Salinas Valley in California, across to Texas, up through the Deep South, and then back to New York. Such a trip encompasses nearly 10,000 miles. According to Thom Steinbeck, the author's oldest son, the real reason for the trip was that Steinbeck knew he was dying and wanted to see his country one"
"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,"
"The Log from the Sea of Cortez The Log from the Sea of Cortez is an English-language book written by American author John Steinbeck and published in 1951. It details a six-week (March 11 – April 20) marine specimen-collecting boat expedition he made in 1940 at various sites in the Gulf of California (also known as the Sea of Cortez), with his friend, the marine biologist Ed Ricketts. It is regarded as one of Steinbeck's most important works of non-fiction chiefly because of the involvement of Ricketts, who shaped Steinbeck's thinking and provided the prototype for many of the pivotal"
"is ""Tom's Midnight Garden"" by Philippa Pearce, the 1958 Carnegie Medal winner, where the protagonist has dreamlike encounters at different points in time. Earlier there was Ronald Welch's ""The Gauntlet"" (1951, back to the Welsh Marches in the 14th century), and Hilda Lewis's perennially popular ""The Ship that Flew"" (1939), which uses time travel to convey characters to the age of Norse gods and heroes. In Alison Uttley's ""A Traveller in Time"" (1939), the girl slips back into the period when Queen Elizabeth I of England has imprisoned Mary, Queen of Scots in Derbyshire. In Elinor Lyon's ""The Golden Shore"""
"painting. He was secretary to the 1936 International Surrealist Exhibition, during which he was memorably required to rescue Salvador Dali from suffocating inside a heavy diving suit. In 1937 he worked for a period for Mass-Observation where he developed lasting friendships with Humphrey Jennings and Kathleen Raine. Todd's two allegorical novels ""Over the Mountain"" (1939) and ""The Lost Traveller"" (1943) both feature protagonists on symbolic journeys; Todd acknowledged the influence of Lewis and Rex Warner on the latter novel. ""Over the Mountain"", a satire on fascism, has its hero travel to a dystopian nation with an oppressive government. During World"
"many migrants, and not enough money or work available to make the hardships and expense of the trip worthwhile. The message of the song parallels a theme of John Steinbeck's seminal novel ""The Grapes of Wrath"", wherein the Joad family makes a dangerous, expensive trip from their home in Oklahoma to California. They encounter a fellow Dust Bowl migrant at a roadside rest-stop who tells them to turn back, echoing the cautionary tone of the song. He cites his own loss and misfortune (he mentions the trials of his dead wife and his underfed children 'moaning like pups') as a"
"Charley"". In 2010 the Dutch journalist and author Geert Mak traveled the same route Steinbeck had followed, basing himself on the notes from Steinbeck's diary as well as the book. Mak wrote a book about it, called ""Reizen zonder John"" (translation from Dutch: ""Traveling without John""). He reviews American society and comments on the changes he encounters since Steinbeck traveled the same parts of the country. Steinbeck's narrative has been challenged as partly fictionalized. Bill Steigerwald, a former staff writer for ""Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"" and an associate editor for ""Pittsburgh Tribune-Review"", followed the route as it is laid out in the"
"""Travels with Charley,"" and wrote about it in a 2011 article titled ""Sorry, Charley,"" published in ""Reason"" magazine. He later self-published his analysis in a 2012 book, titled ""Dogging Steinbeck"". Steigerwald concluded that ""Travels"" contains such a level of invention, and Steinbeck took such great liberty with the truth, that the work has limited claim to being non-fiction. He uses the dialogue with the itinerant Shakespearean actor near Alice, North Dakota to exemplify his point. On October 12 Steinbeck wrote a letter to his wife describing a motel in the Badlands where he was staying, the same date, October 12,"
"""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"
"the second segment is introduced and narrated by Bing Crosby. Decca Records issued an album called ""Ichabod – The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"" featuring Crosby in 1949 to tie in with the release of the film. This segment is based on ""The Wind in the Willows"" (1908) by Kenneth Grahame. The story is set in and around London, England, United Kingdom between June 10, 1909 and January 1, 1910. The protagonist J. Thaddeus Toad, Esq. is introduced as an ""incurable adventurer"" who ""never counted the cost"". As the story's ""one disturbing element"", although he is the wealthy proprietor of the"