Cannery Row

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Cannery Row is a 1945 novel by John Steinbeck that portrays the lives of down-and-out but warm-hearted characters in a sardine-canning district of Monterey, California.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf novel
adaptationType film adaptation
adaptedAs Cannery Row self-linksurface differs
surface form: Cannery Row (1982 film)
author John Steinbeck
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
depicts down-and-out characters
working-class life
firstEditionFormat print
genre fiction
novel
regional fiction
social novel
hasCharacterOccupation brothel owner (Dora Flood)
grocer (Lee Chong)
marine biologist (Doc)
hasSequel Sweet Thursday
hasTheme community
compassion
friendship
human dignity
marginalized people
poverty
survival
hasTitleOrigin named after the real Cannery Row in Monterey
includedIn John Steinbeck bibliography
literaryMovement Modernism
surface form: American modernism

Realism
surface form: American realism
literarySignificance classic of 20th-century American literature
mainCharacter Doc
Dora Flood
Hazel
Lee Chong
Mack
The Boys
mediaType print
narrativeStyle third-person narration
notableFor portrayal of Monterey’s Cannery Row district
originalLanguage English
partOfSeries Cannery Row self-linksurface differs
surface form: Cannery Row series
publicationYear 1945
publisher The Viking Press
surface form: Viking Press
setInLocation Cannery Row self-linksurface differs
surface form: Cannery Row, Monterey

Monterey
surface form: Monterey, California
settingType sardine-canning district
structure episodic
timePeriod Great Depression
tone humorous
poignant
warm-hearted

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John Steinbeck notableWork Cannery Row
Monterey Bay region contains Cannery Row
Monterey knownFor Cannery Row
Monterey hasAttraction Cannery Row
Cannery Row setInLocation Cannery Row self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Cannery Row, Monterey
Cannery Row adaptedAs Cannery Row self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Cannery Row (1982 film)
Cannery Row partOfSeries Cannery Row self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Cannery Row series
Monterey Bay Aquarium locatedOn Cannery Row
Pacific Grove, California near Cannery Row
John notableWork Cannery Row
subject surface form: John Steinbeck
Fisherman’s Wharf near Cannery Row
subject surface form: Fisherman’s Wharf (Monterey)
David S. Ward notableWork Cannery Row
David S. Ward wrote Cannery Row
Debra Winger notableWork Cannery Row
Pipe Dream basedOn Cannery Row
Pipe Dream adaptedFrom Cannery Row
Pipe Dream setting Cannery Row
Doc fictionalUniverse Cannery Row
Doc appearsIn Cannery Row
Doc hasResidence Cannery Row
this entity surface form: Laboratory on Cannery Row
Doc firstAppearance Cannery Row
this entity surface form: Cannery Row (1945 novel)
Dora Flood firstAppearance Cannery Row
this entity surface form: Cannery Row (1945 novel)
Lee Chong appearsIn Cannery Row
Lee Chong fictionalUniverse Cannery Row
this entity surface form: Cannery Row universe
Lee Chong firstAppearance Cannery Row
this entity surface form: Cannery Row (1945 novel)
Hazel appearsIn Cannery Row
The Boys appearsIn Cannery Row
subject surface form: The Boys (Cannery Row)
The Boys firstAppearance Cannery Row
subject surface form: The Boys (Cannery Row)
this entity surface form: Cannery Row (1945)
Sweet Thursday follows Cannery Row
Sweet Thursday literarySeries Cannery Row
this entity surface form: Cannery Row series
Sweet Thursday precededBy Cannery Row
Sweet Thursday followedBy Cannery Row
this entity surface form: Cannery Row: The Play
grocer (Lee Chong) appearsIn Cannery Row
subject surface form: Lee Chong
grocer (Lee Chong) associatedWith Cannery Row
subject surface form: Lee Chong
this entity surface form: The Cannery Row community
grocer (Lee Chong) workOfFictionTitle Cannery Row
subject surface form: Lee Chong
grocer (Lee Chong) appearsInSeries Cannery Row
subject surface form: Lee Chong
this entity surface form: Cannery Row (Steinbeck’s Monterey novels cycle)