Cover of The Grapes of Wrath
Literature

The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

Key Statistics

ID: the-grapes-of-wrath

Published

1939

Pages

619

Est. Weight

2.4 lbs

About this Edition

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 f...

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