Vcl: The Grapes of Wrath: Text and Criticism (Critical Library, Viking) - Softcover

Steinbeck, John; Hearle, Kevin; Lisca, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140247750 ISBN 13: 9780140247756

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2007

Synopsis

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 farm 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 collisons against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots, Steinbeck created a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its insistence on human dignity.

About this title

Review:

"It is Steinbeck's best novel, i.e., his toughest and tenderest, his roughest written and most mellifluous, his most realistic and, in its ending, his most melodramatic, his angriest and most idyllic. It is great in the way that Unlce Tom's Cabin was great. One of the most impassioned and exciting books of the year." --Time

"One comes away moved, indignant, protesting, pitying. A fiery document of protest and compassion, as a story that had to be told, as a book that must be read." --Louis Kronenberger, The Nation

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0140247750
• ISBN 13: 9780140247756
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 736