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Subjects

Study guides, Examinations, Fiction, Criticism and interpretation, American fiction (fictional works by one author), American literature, British and irish drama (dramatic works by one author), Chaucer, geoffrey, -1400, study and teaching, Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature, Cliffs notes, Conrad, joseph, 1857-1924, Criminals, Degeneration, Depressions, English Psychological fiction, Entrance examinations, Europeans, Fiction in English, Grapes of wrath (Steinbeck, John), Grocers, Heart of darkness (Conrad, Joseph), History, Imperialism, Italian Americans, Jewish authors

Places

United States, Africa, Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.), California, Russia

People

Bernard Malamud (1914-), Geoffrey Chaucer (d. 1400), John Steinbeck (1902-1968), Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), Victor Hugo (1802-1885), William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Time

1929, The Depression 1920s