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The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Classics)
by John Steinbeck
from Penguin Classics

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Classic
  The life lessons present in this book are invaluable. I highly recommend reading it.

• A Classic in every respect
  There are very few American novels that can be called a classic, but the trails and tribulations of the Jode family during the Great Depression stands at the pinnacle of 20th century literarute. Nobel prize winner for this his master opus, Steinbeck has etched in the minds of the American public in the 20th Century what Dickens did in the 19th. One of your best bets in the classics department. Riviting.

• Don't bother with a sample!
  Don't bother getting the sample of this book...all you're going to get is a long-winded intro and you don't even get all of that.
  In my opinion, if your introduction needs CHAPTERS, it's too long!

• The Grapes of Wrath
  Steinbeck's novel of social injustice was from the beginning considered a Great American Novel selling over 300,000 copies in its first year, "a phenomenon on the scale of a national event. It was publicly banned and burned by citizens, it was debated on national radio hook-ups; but above all, it was read." Steinbeck scholar John Timmerman sums up the book's impact: "The Grapes of Wrath may well be the most thoroughly discussed novel - in criticism, reviews, and college classrooms - of twentieth century... more info

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