The Grapes of Wrath

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Illustrations on lining papers.
First 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.

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Classic Still Relevant Today submitted by sdunav on August 9, 2017, 8:57pm This 1939 Pulitzer winner is still worth reading today - the social and environmental issues are still important 78 years from its publication. The writing is graphic and poetic, and the story is compelling. I actually read it while on a bus on Route 66 in the southwest US in July, which made the idea of surviving the trip without air-conditioning (in hotels, restaurants, and our vehicles) especially horrifying. It would be interesting to read a modern re-telling of this story set in the same area.