The Grapes of Wrath

1939 novel by John Steinbeck

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"The Grapes of Wrath" is a 1939 novel by John Steinbeck that tells the story of a family's struggle during a difficult period in American history. The book is considered an important work of American literature, though I don't have specific details about its plot or cultural significance to provide beyond that it was published in 1939.

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Author: John Steinbeck
First published: 1939
Editions: 321
Subjects: Labor camps, Depressions, Labor camps in literature, Classic Literature, Open Library Staff Picks, Pulitzer Prize Winner, Fiction, Migrant agricultural laborers in literature

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publication date: 1939-00-00
title: Τα σταφύλια της οργής
Commons category: The Grapes of Wrath
last line: She looked up and across the barn, and her lips came together and smiled mysteriously.

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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 Literature 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 on the "mother road", along with thousands of other "Okies" seeking jobs, land, dignity, and a future.