The Grapes of Wrath
About this book
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.
Subjects
- 813/.52
- abris pour travailleurs
- agricultural laborers
- american fiction
- american fiction (fictional works by one author)
- award:pulitzer_prize=1940
- award:pulitzer_prize=fiction
- california
- california, fiction
- classic literature
- crises économiques
- depressions
- depressions--fiction
- dust bowl era, 1931-1939
- english literature
- familles rurales
- farm family
- fiction
- fiction, family life
- fiction, historical
- fiction, historical, general
- fiction, political
- great depression, 1929-1939
- historical fiction
- in literature
- labor camps
- labor camps--california--fiction
- labor camps--fiction
- labor camps in literature
- medicine in literature
- migrant agricultural laborers
- migrant agricultural laborers--california--fiction
- migrant agricultural laborers -- fiction
- migrant agricultural laborers--fiction
- migrant agricultural laborers in literature
- migrant labor
- new york times reviewed
- oklahoma, fiction
- open library staff picks
- open_syllabus_project
- prose
- ps3537.t3234 g8 1996
- pulitzer prize winner
- readers for new literates
- reading (adult education)
- romans, nouvelles
- rural families
- rural families--fiction
- steinbeck, john , 1902-1968
- travailleurs agricoles migrants