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The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck

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One of the greatest and most socially significant novels of the twentieth century, Steinbeck's controversial masterpiece indelibly captured America during the Great Depression through the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads.

Intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, tragic but ultimately stirring in its insistence on human dignity, The Grapes of Wrath (1939) is not only a landmark American novel, but it is as well an extraordinary moment in the history of our national conscience.

Review:

"Steinbeck's best novel." Time Magazine

Review:

"Steinbeck has written a novel from the depths of his heart with a sincerity seldom equaled." The New York Times Book Review

Review:

"The first book I remember that really grabbed me was a book that Miss McGuffey made us read, a book called Tortilla Flat by Steinbeck. When I read it, I really enjoyed the book. So I went to her and said,'I like this.' She was shocked that I would show any interest in what she was making us do. So she said, okay, read this. The next one was, Of Mice and Men. So she sort of fed the Steinbeck books to me. When I read The Grapes of Wrath — we saved that for last — I knew that was a very powerful book. I don't know if it had anything to do with my writing style, or me as a writer, because I wasn't thinking about it back then. It had a lot to do with the way I viewed humanity and the struggles of little people against big people. It was a very important book for me." John Grisham

Synopsis:

Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America's greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, his many works published as black-spine Penguin Classics for the first time and will feature eye-catching, newly commissioned art.

Of this initial group of six titles, The Grapes of Wrath is in a new edition with a completely revised introduction and, for the first time, detailed notes by leading Steinbeck scholar Robert DeMott.

Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readersand to the many who revisit them again and again.

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About the Author

'JOHN STEINBECK (1902 &1968) was born in Salinas, California. He worked as a laborer and a journalist, and in 1935, when he published Tortilla Flat, he achieved popular success and financial security. Steinbeck wrote more than twenty-five novels and won the Nobel Prize in 1962.

Robert DeMott is the Edwin and Ruth Kennedy Distinguished Professor at Ohio University and the author of Steinbeck\'s Typewriter, an award-winning book of critical essays.

Gary Scharnhorst is professor of English at the University of New Mexico. He is the editor of books by Bret Harte and John De Forest for Penguin Classics.'

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hunterblueocean, October 2, 2006 (view all comments by hunterblueocean)
John Steinbeck is one of my favorite authors and I absolutely love this book! John uses such vivid descriptions you feel as though you right there with the characters. He paints a powerful picture of classic struggle. His writing is so amazing that you feel and breathe each character and you are caught up in their lives and struggles. An amazing book and a brilliant author! The first time I read this book it was for school but the second time I read it was for sheer pleasure and I wasn't one bit disapointed.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780140186406
Author:
Steinbeck, John
Publisher:
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Introduction:
Demott, Robert
Author:
Demott, Robert
Location:
New York, N.Y., U.S.A. :
Subject:
California
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Classics
Subject:
American fiction (fictional works by one author)
Subject:
Migrant agricultural laborers
Subject:
Labor camps -- California -- Fiction. .
Subject:
Labor camps.
Subject:
General Fiction
Publication Date:
19720428
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
544
Dimensions:
7.76x5.10x1.19 in. 1.00 lbs.
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