Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck, John (9781410407856)

Grapes of Wrath

by Steinbeck, John , Demott, Robert

Hardcover - English

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature

Perhaps the most American of American classics, The Grapes of Wrath follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation during the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s. It 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.

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ADDITIONAL INFO

ISBN

1410407853

EAN

9781410407856

Publisher

THORNDIKE PR

Publication Date

18 Jul 2008

Pages

907

Weight (kg)

1.04

Dimensions (cm)

21.6 x 14.5 x 4.3

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