Category: Fiction: Literature

Copyright/published Year: by Penguin

ISBN: 0142000663

Binding: Paper

Description: The Grapes of Wrath is a landmark of American literature. ì A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the ì powerless, of one man's fierce reaction to injustice, and of one ì woman's stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the ì Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and ì justice in America. Although it follows the movement of thousands ì of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation, The ì Grapes of Wrath is also the story of one Oklahoma family, the ì Joads, who are driven off their homestead and forced to travel ì west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and ì their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an ì America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is ì intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, ì elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its ì human dignity.

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

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