The Grapes of Wrath: John Steinbeck Centennial Edition (1902-2002) (Critical Library, Viking) - Softcover

Steinbeck, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0142000663 ISBN 13: 9780142000663

Publisher: Penguin, 2001

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.

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Review:

"Steinbeck is a poet. . . . Everything is real, everything perfect."--Upton Sinclair, Common Sense

"I think, and with earnest and honest consideration . . . that The Grapes of Wrath is the greatest American novel I have ever read." --Dorothy Parker

"It seems to me as great a book as has yet come out of America." --Alexander Woollcott

Book Description:

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, about economic migration and the endurance of the human spirit.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0142000663
• ISBN 13: 9780142000663
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464