The Grapes Of Wrath And Other Writings

Description for THE GRAPES OF WRATH & OTHER WRITINGS 1936-1941 by John Steinbeck: The second volume in The Library of America?ÇÖs authoritative edition of John Steinbeck features his acknowledged masterpiece, THE GRAPES OF WRATH. Written in an incredibly compressed five-month period, the novel had an electrifying impact upon publication in 1939. Tracing the journey of the Joad family from the dust bowl of Oklahoma to the migrant camps of California, Steinbeck creates an American epic, spacious, impassioned, and pulsating with the rhythms of living speech. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize and has since sold millions of copies worldwide. This text of THE GRAPES OF WRATH has been newly edited based on Steinbeck?ÇÖs manuscript, typescript, and proofs. Many errors have been corrected, and words omitted or misconstrued by his typist have been restored. In addition, THE HARVEST GYPSIES, his 1936 investigative report on migrant workers, which laid the groundwork for the novel, is in