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Features an epic of the Joad family, forced to travel west from Dust Bowl era Oklahoma in search of the promised land of California.
Hauptbeschreibung
'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.'
Shocking and controversial when it was first published, The Grapes of Wrath is Steinbeck's Pultizer Prize-winning epic of the Joad family, forced to travel west from Dust Bowl era Oklahoma in search of the promised land of California. Their story is one of false hopes, thwarted desires and powerlessness, yet out of their struggle Steinbeck created a drama that is both intensely human and majestic in its scale and moral vision.
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John Steinbeck (1902-1968) is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. During the 1930s, his works included The Red Pony, Pastures of Heaven, Tortilla Flat, In Dubious Battle and Of Mice and Men. The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939, earned him a Pulitzer Prize. In 1962, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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classic books | penguin modern classics | modern classics | classics | penguin classics | fiction | best books | novels | award winning books | literary fiction | prize winning books | good books | literary gifts | 1930s | dust bowl | spirit | migrations | broken dreams | kansas | california | social justice | a family torn | displacement | exile | endurance | dignity | false hope | classic | war | family | historical fiction
Buchdetails
| Titel: | Grapes of Wrath |
| Verlag: | Penguin Books UK |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2014 |
| Sprache: | English |
| 688 Seiten | |
| 31 mm x 172 mm | |
| ISBN-13: | 978-0-14-139488-6 |
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