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The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Modern Classics) (Paperback)
Short Description for The Grapes of WrathSet against the background of dust bowl Oklahoma and Californian migrant life, this novel tells the story of the Joad family, who, like thousands of others, are forced to travel West in search of the promised land.
Full description- Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS
- Published: 07 September 2000
- Format: Paperback 528 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Classics
- ISBN 13: 9780141185064 ISBN 10: 0141185066
- Sales rank: 1,468
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Top review
A sorrow that weeping cannot symolize.
"There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize."
So reads the start of one of the most moving passages in The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbecks classic tale of the fate of the thousands of Oklahoman farmers ("Okies") forced to move East in search of a new way of life.
Their farm destroyed by numerous droughts and their home taken from them by the "monstrous" banks, the Joad family are lured to California by a promise of new work amongst the sunny orchards of the East. Their journey, and what they find at its end, remains a compelling indictment of the evils of unfettered capitalism and an appeal for more humanity in the modern world.
Considered by many to by Steinbecks greatest novel, The Grapes of Wrath deals tremendously with its varying themes - the meaning of family, religion and worker rights, amongst others - through an effective literary framework that captures the plight of the "Okies" both at the personal level of the Joad's, and at the general level of the mass emigration East.
by James
A "must read", if ever there was one.
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