The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck, John (9780791093054)

The Grapes of Wrath - Updated

by Steinbeck, John , Bloom, Harold

Library Binding - English

Set during the Great Depression, The Grapes of Wrath follows failed farmer Tom Joad and his family as they head from Oklahoma's Dust Bowl to the promised land of the West. This book presents a collection of essays that set the scene for an amplified study of this American classic. It contains introductions, a chronology, a bibliography and more.

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ADDITIONAL INFO

Edition Number

Updated

ISBN

0791093050

EAN

9780791093054

Publisher

CHELSEA HOUSE PUB

Publication Date

01 Sep 2006

Pages

193

Weight (kg)

0.49

Dimensions (cm)

23.8 x 16.5 x 1.8

Lexile Level

680

About Author

No writer is more quintessentially American than John Steinbeck. Born in 1902 in Salinas, California, Steinbeck attended Stanford University before working at a series of mostly blue-collar jobs and embarking on his literary career. Profoundly committed to social progress, he used his writing to raise issues of labor exploitation and the plight of the common man, penning some of the greatest American novels of the twentieth century and winning such prestigious awards as the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He received the Nobel Prize in 1962, "for his realistic and imaginative writi