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The Grapes of Wrath

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241980347

  • Length: 544  Pages

  • Dimensions: 181mm x 32mm x 111mm

  • Weight: 293g

  • RRP: £8.99

The Grapes of Wrath

'To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.'

Drought and economic depression are driving thousands from Oklahoma. As their land becomes just another strip in the dust bowl, the Joads, a family of sharecroppers, decide they have no choice but to follow. They head west, towards California, where they hope to find work and a future for their family. But while the journey to this promised land will take its inevitable toll, there remains uncertainty about what awaits their arrival . . .

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Grapes of Wrath is an epic human drama, with a stunning new cover by renowned artist Bijou Karman.

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241980347

  • Length: 544  Pages

  • Dimensions: 181mm x 32mm x 111mm

  • Weight: 293g

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • A warm-hearted celebration of the persistence of the human spirit

    Guardian

  • Magnificent

    New York Times

  • Steinbeck's writings form a photograph album of America

    Guardian

  • There is no more impressive writer on either side of the Atlantic

    Time and Tide

  • A novelist who is also a true poet

    Sunday Times

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About the Author

John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck (1902-68) is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. During the 1930s, his works included The Red Pony, Pastures of Heaven, Tortilla Flat, In Dubious Battle, and Of Mice and Men. The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939, earned him a Pulitzer Prize. In 1962, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

John Steinbeck

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The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The classic 1939 novel takes place during the Dust Bowl drought, which forced thousands of Americans to flee the prairies and travel to California. Here, Steinbeck depicts the fear felt by the western states in the face of the migration

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