description: The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers.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.
language: English
title: Grapes of Wrath
titlecomplete: Grapes of Wrath
characters: Ma Joad, Pa Joad, Al Joad, Uncle John Joad, Jim Casy, Grampa Joad, Granma Joad, Ruthie Joad, Noah Joad, Tom Joad, Connie Rivers, Rose of Sharon Joad Rivers, Winfield Joad
genres: Fiction, Historical, American, Classic Literature, School, Literature, Classics, Novels, High School, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 881110
places: California, Oklahoma, Route 66, The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: -946742400000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Novel, awardedAt: -978278400000
name: National Book Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: -978278400000
name: California Book Award
category: General Literature (Silver), awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Audie Award
category: Classic
publisher: Random House Value Publishing