The Grapes of Wrath

Informationen zum Autor John Steinbeck (1902-68) is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. During the 1930s, his works included The Red Pony , Pastures of Heaven , Tortilla Flat , In Dubious Battle , and Of Mice and Men . The Grapes of Wrath , published in 1939, earned him a Pulitzer Prize. In 1962, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Klappentext The Grapes of Wrath is a landmark of American literature. 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. Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation, The Grapes of Wrath is also the story of one Oklahoma family, the Joads, who are driven off 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. Zusammenfassung A story of Joad family, who are forced to travel west from Dust Bowl era Oklahoma in search of the promised land of California.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Demott, John Steinbeck
• Assisted by: Robert Demott (Introduction), DeMott Robert (Introduction)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.09.2000
• EAN: 9780141185064
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118506-4
• No. of pages: 528
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; MC FICTION ENG; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics; MC FICTION ENG
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Literary, California, Oklahoma, Family life fiction, Realism, 1929 to c 1939 (period of the Great Depression)