num_pages: 1
description: 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 collisons 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.
language: English
title: The Grapes of Wrath
titlecomplete: The Grapes of Wrath
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: 881075
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: Caedmon