John Steinbeck
Hardcover | Pages: 479 pages Rating: 3.96 | 712460 Users | 16138 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Grapes of Wrath |
| ISBN: | 067001690X (ISBN13: 9780670016907) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Tom Joad, Rose of Sharon Joad Rivers, Ma Joad, Pa Joad, Uncle John Joad, Jim Casy, Al Joad, Ruthie Joad, Winfield Joad, Noah Joad, Grampa Joad, Granma Joad, Connie Rivers |
| Setting: | Oklahoma(United States) California(United States) United States of America |
| Literary Awards: | Pulitzer Prize for Novel (1940), National Book Award for Fiction (1939), California Book Award for General Literature (Silver) (1939), Audie Award for Classic (1999) |
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers.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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| Title | : | The Grapes of Wrath |
| Author | : | John Steinbeck |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | 75th Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 479 pages |
| Published | : | April 10th 2014 by Viking (first published April 14th 1939) |
| Categories | : | Romance. Young Adult. New Adult. Contemporary. Sociology. Abuse |
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Man-made environmental catastrophe and its (in)human cost - a study in inequality and injustice! Imagine having to leave your country because it is a wasteland created by a decade of dust storms? Imagine having nowhere to go, but still crossing the desert in hope of finding a future after your past was wiped out by human failure, greed and environmental carelessness? Imagine not being welcome when you arrive, with nothing but what your family vehicle can carry ... How can we live without ourHow can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? The Grapes of Wrath won John Steinbeck both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, firmly engraving his name on the stone tablet featuring the canon of Great American Writers. Published in 1939, it is arguably Steinbeck's best known work and is still widely read today. Admirers praised Steinbeck for writing an epic tale of Biblical proportions, singing songs of
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Oklahoma, 1939. Tractors invade the barren plains, ruining crops, demolishing houses, stripping farmers of their livelihood, leaving only billows of dust and ransacked land behind. Bewildered families choke with disbelief at the lame excuses of the landowners who blame a monster bigger than them. Not the severe droughts, not the iron machines, not their useless greed, but the bank, the bank forced them to do it. And so a pilgrimage of thousands of destitute families to the promised land of
This book was incredibly scary; especially because it was so realistic. John Steinbeck has a way of depicting society and people in a raw and honest way that leaves you with a hollow feeling inside, and yet you devour his books because they are so amazing. In "The Grapes of Wrath" we meet Tom, who has just been released from prison on probation, as well as his family who's about to move to the West because banks and tractors have evicted them from their own home and land. It's USA in the middle
In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.This book really gets my goat. Those poor, dirty Joads. So poor and so, so dirty. After being displaced from their Oklahoma farm following the Dust Bowl storms that wreck their crops and cause them to default on their loans, the Joads find themselves a family of migrants in search of work and food. They join a stream of hundreds of thousands of other migrant families across the United
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