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The Grapes of Wrath
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  • Published: 28 May 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141394886
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 688
  • RRP: $28.00

The Grapes of Wrath

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Paperback
28 May 2014
Paperback
23 Oct 2000
Hardback
28 May 1993
EBook
23 Oct 2000
Audiobook
28 Jan 2021
Audiobook
1 Mar 2013
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3 July 2017
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A 75th anniversary edition of Steinbeck's undisputed masterpiece, a panoramic vision of the betrayal of the American dream

'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.'

Shocking and controversial when it was first published, The Grapes of Wrath is Steinbeck's Pultizer Prize-winning epic of the Joad family, forced to travel west from Dust Bowl era Oklahoma in search of the promised land of California. Their story is one of false hopes, thwarted desires and powerlessness, yet out of their struggle Steinbeck created a drama that is both intensely human and majestic in its scale and moral vision.
  • Published: 28 May 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141394886
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 688
  • RRP: $28.00
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About the author

John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck (1902-68) is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. During the 1930s, his works included The Red Pony, Pastures of Heaven, Tortilla Flat, In Dubious Battle, and Of Mice and Men. The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939, earned him a Pulitzer Prize. In 1962, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Praise for The Grapes of Wrath

A novelist who is also a true poet

Sunday Times