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The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck; OverDrive, Inc is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Grapes of Wrath about?

The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers. One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years 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. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman’s stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. At once a naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel, and transcendental gospel, Steinbeck’s powerful landmark novel is perhaps the most American of American

Who reads The Grapes of Wrath?

Author

John Steinbeck; OverDrive, Inc

Publisher

Penguin Classics

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9781436241472

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Political Science

Rating

3.93 / 5 (59 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14