num_pages: 528
description: The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers.  Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadA Penguin ClassicFirst 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.This Penguin Classics edition contains an introduction and notes by Steinbeck scholar Robert Demott.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin 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 authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
language: English
title: The Grapes Of Wrath (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)
titlecomplete: The Grapes Of Wrath (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (Penguin Classics)
characters: Rose of Sharon Joad Rivers, Grampa Joad, Ma Joad, Al Joad, Tom Joad, Connie Rivers, Jim Casy, Ruthie Joad, Winfield Joad, Granma Joad, Noah Joad, Uncle John Joad, Pa Joad
genres: Fiction, Classics, School, Historical, Classic Literature, American, Historical Fiction, High School, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 880895
places: California, Route 66, Oklahoma, 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: Turtleback Books