English language
Published March 4, 1940 by Prestwick House, Incorporated.
Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck: Grapes of Wrath (1940, Prestwick House, Incorporated)
- ISBN:
- 978-1-60843-109-0
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4 stars
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Steinbeck’s classic novel of the Great Depression is as vivid now as ever. The story focuses on a family of Oklahoma sharecroppers, farmers who work another man’s land for a share of the crops. Driven from their home by drought and poverty they take to the road in a battered old truck and make their way to California to look for work. When they arrive they find hundreds of others like them being forced to work for breadline wages. they begin working as fruit pickers, strike-breakers replacing the people who have been trying to establish a union but their consciences force them to leave.
Also contained in:
- [The Grapes of Wrath / The Moon is Down / Cannery Row / East of Eden / Of Mice and Men][1]
Steinbeck’s classic novel of the Great Depression is as vivid now as ever. The story focuses on a family of Oklahoma sharecroppers, farmers who work another man’s land for a share of the crops. Driven from their home by drought and poverty they take to the road in a battered old truck and make their way to California to look for work. When they arrive they find hundreds of others like them being forced to work for breadline wages. they begin working as fruit pickers, strike-breakers replacing the people who have been trying to establish a union but their consciences force them to leave.
Also contained in:
- [The Grapes of Wrath / The Moon is Down / Cannery Row / East of Eden / Of Mice and Men][1]
Subjects
- California, fiction
- Fiction, historical, general
- American fiction (fictional works by one author)
- Fiction, family life
- Fiction, political
- Oklahoma, fiction