The Grapes of Wrath: Text and Criticism; Revised Edition (Critical Library, Viking)
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| Rating | : | 4.65 (509 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0140247750 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 712 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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"It is Steinbeck's best novel, i.e., his toughest and tenderest, his roughest written and most mellifluous, his most realistic and, in its ending, his most melodramatic, his angriest and most idyllic. It is great in the way that Unlce Tom's Cabin was great. One of the most impassioned and exciting books of the year." —Time"One comes away moved, indignant, protesting, pitying. A fiery document of protest and compassion, as a story that had to be told, as a book that must be read." —Louis Kronenb
John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression follows the western moevement of wone family and a nation in search of work and human dignity. This completely updated Viking Critical Library Edition of The Grapes of Wrath includes the full text of the novel, corrected in 1996, as well as extensive and contextual material including:Essays placing The Grapes of Wrath in social context, including a 1942 essay by Carey McWilliams about migrant workers and working conditions and a Martin Schockley piece on the reception of The Grapes of Wrath in OklahomaEight new essays by John Ditsky, Nellie Y. McKay, MimiReisel Gladstein, Louis Owens, and othersAn essay on the background to the composition of The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck's biographer, Jackson J. BensonAn introduction by the editor, a chronology, a list of topics for dis
From the Dust of The Bowl M. Swinney "The highway is alive tonight, but nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes. I'm sitting down here in the campfire light, searchin' for the ghost of Tom Joad."--Bruce Springsteen, The Ghost of Tom Joad (1995)And John Steinbeck's novel is still with us, still proving relevant. I would suggest listening to some Woodie Guthrie or B. A Customer said the book was written with poetic sadness that moves reader. The Grapes of Wrath is one of the most important novels both historically and stylisticly that has ever come out of America. As the reader is taken down the road of hardship and economic injustice that the Joad family must travel, his eyes are open to the terrible calamities that the depression and the Dust Bowl brought on poor far. the book was written with poetic sadness that moves reader A Customer The Grapes of Wrath is one of the most important novels both historically and stylisticly that has ever come out of America. As the reader is taken down the road of hardship and economic injustice that the Joad family must travel, his eyes are open to the terrible calamities that the depression and the Dust Bowl brought on poor far