The Grapes of Wrath
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496 pages · Released 2014 · Viking
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The Grapes of Wrath is a powerful but emotionally heavy exploration of poverty, injustice, and human suffering during the Great Depression. While not graphically violent, the novel contains scenes of brutality, death, and despair that require emotional maturity to process. It offers profound lessons about solidarity, compassion, and moral courage, making it valuable for older teens and adults willing to engage with difficult historical realities.
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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 t... 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 forced to work for breadline wages. they begin working as fruit pickers, strike-breakers replacing the people who have been trying to establish a union but their consciences force them to leave.
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- Depressions
- Labor camps in literature
- Classic Literature
- Open Library Staff Picks
- Pulitzer Prize Winner
- Fiction
- Migrant agricultural laborers in literature
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- California
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ISBN 9780670016907 · Viking