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75th Anniversary
Penguin Classics
April 2006
On Sale: March 28, 2006
464 pages
ISBN: 0143039431
EAN: 9780143039433
Kindle: B001BKTEZA
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanizedβand sometimes outragedβmillions of readers. First published in 1939, Steinbeckβs 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 manβs fierce reaction to injustice, and of one womanβs stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. The Grapes of Wrath summed up its era in the way that Uncle Tomβs Cabin summed up the years of slavery before the Civil War. Sensitive to fascist and communist criticism, Steinbeck insisted that βThe Battle Hymn of the Republicβ be printed in its entirety in the first edition of the bookβwhich takes its title from the first verse: βHe is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.β At once a naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel, and transcendental gospel, Steinbeckβs powerful landmark novel is perhaps the most American of American Classics.
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