num_pages: 619
description: The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized-and sometimes outraged-millions of readersThe Grapes of Wrath summed up its era in the way that Uncle Tom's Cabin had summed up the years of slavery before the Civil War. At once naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel, and transcendental gospel, Steinbeck's fictional chronicle of the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s is perhaps the most American of American classics.Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation, The Grapes of Wrath is also the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads, who are driven off 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, Steinbeck created a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its insistence on human dignity.WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE
language: English
title: The Grapes of Wrath
titlecomplete: The Grapes of Wrath
characters: Noah Joad, Grampa Joad, Granma Joad, Uncle John Joad, Ma Joad, Connie Rivers, Jim Casy, Ruthie Joad, Rose of Sharon Joad Rivers, Al Joad, Winfield Joad, Tom Joad, Pa Joad
genres: Historical, Literature, American, Classics, School, Novels, High School, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Classic Literature
ratings_count: 881020
places: California, The United States of America, Route 66, Oklahoma
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: Penguin Classics