The Grapes of Wrath

The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression,a book that galvanizedΓÇöand sometimes outragedΓÇömillions of readers. Nominated as one of AmericaΓÇÖs best-loved novels by PBSΓÇÖs The Great American Read A Penguin Classic First published in 1939SteinbeckΓÇÖs Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm familythe JoadsΓÇödriven 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 visionelemental yet plainspokentragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerlessof one manΓÇÖs fierce reaction to injusticeand of one womanΓÇÖs stoical strengththe novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. At once a naturalistic epiccaptivity narrativeroad noveland transcendental gospelSteinbeckΓÇÖs powerful landmark novel is perhaps the most American of American Classics. This Penguin Classics edition contains an introduction and notes by Steinbeck scholar Robert Demott. For more than seventy yearsPenguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1800 titlesPenguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authorsas well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.