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In Dubious Battle (Penguin Classics)
by: John Steinbeck

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52
EAN: 9780143039631
ISBN: 0143039636
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: May 30, 2006
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Sales Rank: 41160
Studio: Penguin Classics

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Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America’s greatest writers and cultural figures. We have begun publishing his many works for the first time as blackspine Penguin Classics featuring eye-catching, newly commissioned art. This season we continue with the seven spectacular and influential books East of Eden, Cannery Row, In Dubious Battle, The Long Valley, The Moon Is Down, The Pastures of Heaven, and Tortilla Flat. Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readers—and to the many who revisit them again and again.

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- For the Party
Unlike Steinbeck's other works, "In Dubious Battle" exhibits much more of a social conscience toward the need of the average man. Aside from "The Grape of Wrath" and "The Moon is Down", this trait of Steinbeck is not always evident in his work. Although communism is never mentioned by name, the book is centered around the laborers that organize in a fruit strike in the California Valley. In his storytelling, flaws are revealed on both ends of the spectrum so it would be inaccurate to call this book pro-communist. Yet the pro-labor leanings expressed in the book may reveal a preference.

Jim Nolan is new to the movement, leaving his past life with the idea of making a difference. While he initially seems to be the main character, the focus becomes quite broad. "The party" plans to incite a strike and seeks employment as pickers with this in mind. As the plot is sets up, the story moves somewhat ... Read More

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- A Story of Struggle
This book is solid. Steinbeck engages with the reader with symbolic themes such as struggle of the exploited proletariat and the dissenting views of 1930's America in this story about the rise of a local fruit pickers strike. As usual, Steinbeck does a great job throwing the reader into a vivid setting he has created- while at the same immersing the reader into the everyday struggle of the "working class" American with nothing to lose. Steinbeck's inclusion of real characters who are not shy to have a opposing opinion about the importance of the drive of the primary protagonists plays an vital role in the story. A must read for anyone fascinated with the frustrations of everyday workers, including their failure and successes.

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- Top Class Steinbeck
This is one of those books that changes the way you see the world.

I've read a few of Steinbeck's books, including the big ones and some of the smaller ones.

In Dubious Battle is just as excellent as Grapes of Wrath, only in a smaller way. After I finished this book, I sat and thought for a long time, unable to get it out of my mind.

This is not to be missed. Entertaining and thought provoking.

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- Great Steinbeck
I am a huge Steinbeck fan, and have always been. There are a some of his works that I appreciate more than others. Steinbeck captures the heart and the soul of the poverty stricken, the worker bees that keep the social wheels turning. He knows their mind and their emotions like he has been there with them and he believes what they have to say is of value. He brings a warmth and almost acceptance to the idea of being a Communist in America.

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