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The Grapes of Wrath
The saga of a family in 1939 that struggles through the Great Depression by laboring as Dust Bowl migrants.
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East of Eden
This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks' and the Hamilton's--whose generations helplessly reenact the …
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Roughing it
Describes the author's experiences during the six years he spent in California, Nevada, and Hawaii
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The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit
A fictionalized biography of Joaquin Murieta, a nineteenth-century Mexican bandit who organized an outlaw company numbering more than two thousand who terrorized gold-rush Californians.
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Bret Harte's Gold Rush
These fifteen stories bring the California Gold Rush to life with their boisterous assemblage of rough-clad miners, pistol-packing preachers, iron-willed women, and philosophical gamblers. Theirs was an unpredictable world, filled …
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The Octopus
Like the tentacles of an octopus, the tracks of the railroad reached out across California, as if to grasp everything of value in the state Based on an actual, bloody …
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The Joy Luck Club
Encompassing two generations and a rich blend of Chinese and American history, the story of four struggling, strong women also reveals their daughters' memories and feelings
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Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust
Two classic short stories, one about a male reporter who writes an advice column, and the other, about people who have migrated to California in expectation of health and ease.
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The Big Sleep
The renowned novel from the crime fiction master, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe. • Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring …
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
A RICH DISPLAY OF SOME OF THE BEST PROSE WRITTEN TODAY IN THE USA.