Book · 1939 · Fiction

The Grapes of Wrath

Name: The Grapes of Wrath
Author: John Steinbeck

Penguin Books (Penguin Random House) · 464 pages

★ 9.0 editorial score

The Joads lose their Oklahoma farm and drive west to California, where the promised work is a lie. Steinbeck's fury at what was done to them still comes off the page.

Genre

Realism Family saga

Medium

Novel

Subject

Working class Poverty Great Depression Family

Setting

California

Time

1939Depicts Great DepressionDepicts 1930s

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