num_pages: 416
description: When this novel was first published, it took both America and Britain by storm. It is the story of a dispossessed community, driven from its bit of land in Oklahoma by the implacable march of industrial progress. The big corporations which own the land the 'squatters' occupy decide that the time has come to mechanize agriculture - and so the bulldozers demolish overnight small-holdings and cabins that represent so many years of hope and labour. Like their fathers before them, these displaced citizens of America set out on the migrant trail to the West. But not, alas, to find a land of plenty in the 'Golden West'.
language: English
title: The Grapes of Wrath
titlecomplete: The 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: 881022
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: Callender Press