Publication

2006 - Penguin Books, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

116,000 words, Guess

Page Count

464 pages

Identifiers

and 1 more
  • LibraryThing8488

Classifications

  • DDC813/.52
  • LCCPS3537.T3234 G8 2006

Description

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.

Description

Depicts the hardships and suffering endured by the Joads as they journey from Oklahoma to California during the Depression.

Subjects

Genres

  • Fiction.

Series Statement

  • Penguin classics

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