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No cover — John Steinbeck: Grapes of Wrath (2002, DIANE Publishing Company)

English language

Published March 9, 2002 by DIANE Publishing Company.

ISBN:: 978-0-7567-5706-9

The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1962.Set during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on the Joads, a poor family of tenant farmers driven from their Oklahoma home by drought, economic hardship, agricultural industry changes, and bank foreclosures forcing tenant farmers out of work. Due to their nearly hopeless situation, and in part because they are trapped in the Dust Bowl, the Joads set out for California along with thousands of other "Okies" seeking jobs, land, dignity, and a future. The Grapes of Wrath is frequently read in American high school and college literature classes due to its historical context and enduring legacy. A celebrated Hollywood film version, starring Henry Fonda and directed by …

The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1962.Set during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on the Joads, a poor family of tenant farmers driven from their Oklahoma home by drought, economic hardship, agricultural industry changes, and bank foreclosures forcing tenant farmers out of work. Due to their nearly hopeless situation, and in part because they are trapped in the Dust Bowl, the Joads set out for California along with thousands of other "Okies" seeking jobs, land, dignity, and a future. The Grapes of Wrath is frequently read in American high school and college literature classes due to its historical context and enduring legacy. A celebrated Hollywood film version, starring Henry Fonda and directed by John Ford, was released in 1940.

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neirda reviewed Les raisins de la colère by John Steinbeck

Ficelles trop grosses

4 stars

C'est le capital de marx mais sous forme de roman en gros, j'ai passé un bon moment mais bon rien d'exeptionnel et je trouves que le message qu'il veut faire passé l'est sans aucune subtilité. Quand ils arrivent dans les camps autogérés t'as l'impression qu'il te décrit le paradis sur terre. Je reste aussi sur ma fin, je m'attendais a avoir plus d'intensité sur le thème de la grève

Subjects

California, fiction
Fiction, historical, general
American fiction (fictional works by one author)
Fiction, family life
Fiction, political
Oklahoma, fiction