The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck is a novel about the Great Depression. The stories of starvation and despair told today scarcely do it justice as the life-destroyer it was. It uprooted farmers and their families who had lived there for generations and forced them to move west in search of work. Unfortunately, 300,000 families went west, which caused the labor pool in California to stretch to the breaking point. The degredation that the transplanted families faced was immeasurable. The story of one family, the Joads, and the trials and triumphs that they endure on this long journey are the basis for Steinbecks' novel, and is why it has endured as the "most American of American classics." "The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized-and sometimes outraged-millions of readers" Though it's 619 pages long, but once the Joads have been introduced, you must see them through to California and in their hunt for a better life.

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