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From author's abstract: 'My purpose in this essay is to briefly illuminate the most striking similarities between the two authors' [Steinbeck and Hardy's] narrative strategies in terms of their writing style, narrative technique, and subject matter, and link these textual affinities to the larger social and cultural milieu of each author' (63). The second part of the essay focuses particularly on The Grapes of Wrath and Power Without Glory.