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The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. It was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1962.
The National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
A Penguin Classic
First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman’s stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. At once a naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel, and transcendental gospel, Steinbeck’s powerful landmark novel is perhaps the most American of American Classics.
This Penguin Classics edition contains an introduction and notes by Steinbeck scholar Robert Demott.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
About the Author
John Steinbeck (1902-1968) was an American author (born in Salinas, California). He remains one of the most prolific and influential authors of his generation and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962 'for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception'. He has been called a 'giant of American letters.'
During his writing career, he wrote 33 books and co-authored a book with Edward Ricketts. He is widely known for comic novels. Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath is considered his masterpiece and part of the American literary canon. It sold 14 million copies since it was published. He died on December 20, 1968, in New York.
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Author: John Steinbeck
Publisher: Viking (75 edition), The Viking Press (first edition)
Publishing Date: April 10, 2014 (75 edition), April 14, 1939 (original, first edition)
Edition Language: English
Genre: Classic American Literature, Classic Literature & Fiction, Literary Fiction
ISBN-10: 067001690x
ISBN-13: 978-0670016907
Pages: 496 (Hardcover)
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