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The grapes of wrath

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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.

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Series Title

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Call Number

823 STE t

Publisher

London : Penguin Classics., 2006

Collation

464 p. ; 20 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780143039433

Classification

800

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Media Type

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Edition

Ed. 1

Subject(s)

Classic Literature

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Statement of Responsibility

John Steinbeck

Other Information

Level

High School

Book Segment

Reading for pleasure

Reading Level

Independent

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