Great Depression writing, as authors have sought to evaluate an era that caused both financial and emotional trauma. Perhaps the most noteworthy and famous novel written on the subject is "The Grapes of Wrath", published in 1939 and written by John Steinbeck, who was awarded both the Nobel Prize for literature and the Pulitzer Prize for the work. The novel focuses on a poor family of sharecroppers who are forced from their home as drought, economic hardship, and changes in the agricultural industry occur during the Great Depression. Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" is another important novella about a journey during the
The Generals of the Yang Family previous novels, some retold particular stories, while some are sequels. Other novels with similar settings would also feature characters from the Yang family, for example the novels featuring Zhao Kuangyin (927–976) or Di Qing (1008–1057) as their main character. Other novels in later settings also included characters who were alleged descendants of the Yang family: The Jiaqing Emperor, who reigned from 1796 to 1820, ordered the compilation of a "Song Book to Enlighten Generations" (昭代箫韶), containing 240 plays in "kunqu" about the generals of the Yang family. The compilation was published in 1813 and attributed to Wang Tingzhang (王廷章) and