Paperback, 581 pages
Published 1976 by Penguin.
The Grapes of Wrath
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Steinbeck’s classic novel of the Great Depression is as vivid now as ever. The story focuses on a family of Oklahoma sharecroppers, farmers who work another man’s land for a share of the crops. Driven from their home by drought and poverty they take to the road in a battered old truck and make their way to California to look for work. When they arrive they find hundreds of others like them being forced to work for breadline wages. they begin working as fruit pickers, strike-breakers replacing the people who have been trying to establish a union but their consciences force them to leave.
Subjects
- Labor camps
- Depressions
- Labor camps in literature
- Classic Literature
- Pulitzer Prize Winner
- Fiction
- Migrant agricultural laborers in literature
- California
- American fiction
- In literature
- Migrant agricultural laborers
- Rural families
- Migrant agricultural laborers -- Fiction
- Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939
- Farm family
- Great Depression, 1929-1939
- Agricultural laborers
- Migrant labor
- California, fiction
- Fiction, historical
- American fiction (fictional works by one author)
- Fiction, family life
- Fiction, political
- Oklahoma, fiction
- English literature
- Prose
- Fiction, historical, general
- Historical fiction
- Migrant agricultural laborers--california--fiction
- Labor camps--california--fiction
- Migrant agricultural laborers--fiction
- Rural families--fiction
- Depressions--fiction
- Labor camps--fiction
- Medicine in literature