The Grapes Of Wrath

First published in 1939 Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning
epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl
migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma
farm family the Joads—driven from 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. 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.
At once a naturalistic epic captivity narrative road novel
and transcendental gospel Steinbeck’s powerful landmark
novel is perhaps the most American of American Classics.