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Grapes of Wrath
Category: Fiction: Literature
Author: John Steinbeck
Copyright/published Year: by Penguin
ISBN: 0142000663
Binding: Paper
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.
First published in 1939, The Grapes of Wrath summed up its era in
the way that Uncle Tom's Cabin summed up the years of slavery
before the Civil War. Sensitive to fascist and communist
criticism, Steinbeck insisted that "The Battle Hymn of the
Republic" be printed in its entirety in the first edition of the
book -- which takes its title from the first verse: "He is
trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored."
At once a naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel, and
transcendental gospel, Steinbeck's fictional chronicle of the
Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s is perhaps the most American of
American Classics.
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