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The Grapes of Wrath Paperback – 23 October 2000

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Shocking and controversial when it was first published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer prize-winning epic remains his undisputed masterpiece. Set against the background of dust bowl Oklahoma and Californian migrant life, it tells of the Joad family, who, like thousands of others, are forced to travel West in search of the promised land. Their story is one of false hopes, thwarted desires and broken dreams, yet out of their suffering Steinbeck created a drama that is intensely human, yet majestic in its scale and moral vision; an eloquent tribute to the endurance and dignity of the human spirit.
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Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. His complete works will be available in Penguin Modern Classics.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin; 1st edition (23 October 2000)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 528 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780141185064
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  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 19.7 x 12.9 x 3.15 cm
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John Steinbeck (1902-1968), winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, achieved popular success in 1935 when he published Tortilla Flat. He went on to write more than twenty-five novels, including The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men.

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timbo
5.0 out of 5 stars Why did I wait so long to read this
Reviewed in Australia on 22 April 2024
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So much of this brilliant story remains relevant today. The Joad family’s trials are the trials of everyone writ large.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Capitalism and selfishness
Reviewed in Australia on 7 September 2023
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A critique of the American Dream. Dog eat dog. Apparently this tragic story was banned in USA. Powerful writing bursting with imagery of hardship.
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Larry
4.0 out of 5 stars Difficult to read at the start with the use of ...
Reviewed in Australia on 3 September 2015
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Difficult to read at the start with the use of language and slang, however a powerful story of the greed that can happen unchecked by social norms.
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Janet George
5.0 out of 5 stars I hated it then but decided I would revisit it
Reviewed in Australia on 13 February 2018
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This book was compulsory reading for year 11 English in1981. I hated it then but decided I would revisit it. I really enjoyed my second reading of it and I had a better understanding of the social and moral issues. I feel you really need life experiences to understand this significant book especially in light of world globalisation and the worldwide crisis of displaced people and refugees
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William Bastick
5.0 out of 5 stars Steinbeck at his best.
Reviewed in Australia on 22 August 2016
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I had not read this well known classic before, but the wait was well worth it. I felt every bit of Tom and his family's journey as they struggled through insurmountable odds and were still struggling on the last page. This story is still timely this century in other parts of the world.
Highly recommended.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars
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The book seemed to finish before it was finished
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5.0 out of 5 stars Timeless
Reviewed in Australia on 9 July 2019
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A classic which I only just got around to reading and is depressingly too familiar in its application to modern day.
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Michael Kelly
2.0 out of 5 stars Grapes of frustration and disappointment
Reviewed in Australia on 2 November 2016
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So highly rated yet so disappointing. I have a theory that critics often follow the leader when critiquing novels, too insecure to can a novel that a famous critic has praised. Then if any ordinary readers are critical, the critics say "Oh well the novel obviously wasn't 'accessible' enough for you," meaning if you understood creative writing you would have liked it. That (a) justifies their praise of the book and (b) justifies their careers. "See," they say, "You need people like us to tell you which novels are good and which ones are not."
Grapes has so many useless, naive, meaningless passages, mostly dialogue, I wondered if the publishers gave Steinbeck a minimum page requirement. And did people in the US really speak that way, ever? If they did, critics need to rate novels according to their appeal to contemporary readers. Even if novels like Grapes and A Farewell to Arms (which I disliked even more) were masterpieces in their day (I can't imagine they ever were), I want to know what's a good read for me and my contemporaries, regardless of when it was written. That doesn't mean that I think all old novels are over-rated; clearly they're not. But a number that often appear in the top 20 of all time, are.
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Baltic Mermaid
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the greatest books I have ever read. Probably the greatest.
Reviewed in the United States on 5 February 2024
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“The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck, a Pulitzer Prize award winner, the book that laid not a brick but a whole foundation for the author to receive the Nobel prize in literature, doesn’t need any additional acclaim. Not from a random reader like me, anyway. And still, I want to share the absolute admiration and awe I haven’t felt for a very long time while reading a book.

“Up ahead they’s a thousand’ lives we might live, but when it comes, it’ll on’y be one.”

Back in the 1930s, during the Great Depression, the population of the United States was over one hundred and twenty million. The Joads, though, were among those two hundred fifty thousand farmers who, after the banks had thrown them out from their land and homes, set out to California, where, they were told, they could start over. They could have lived a different life, there probably were, if not thousands, but a few other choices they could have made, but the only one they lived was full of hardships and sorrow.

“The Grapes of Wrath” – or any book really – isn’t a story about everyone. It isn’t about the fate of every single American family who lived in the States almost a century ago. It isn’t about every farmer of Oklahoma or other agricultural state, who, driven by the wish to feed their families during the years when the harvest was poor and by the lack of financial literacy, lost their farm. It also isn’t about every single Californian farmer who was luckier and still had rich harvests and got an extra bonus of cheap labour force flooding the country.

Yet, “The Grapes of Wrath” is a story of thousands – tens or hundreds – of people. And as such, it deserves to be told. From the perspective of these people, their hardships, the sufferings they had to go through. Without sugarcoating
or diminishing the bitterness of what they experienced solely for the sake of not offending anyone.
Every story deserves to be told, even if it angers someone.

The truth is that those who go through something like the Joads do in “The Grapes of Wrath” seldom get a chance to tell their story. Others have to do it. But for that, those luckier ones have to have compassion for the less fortunate and a desire to understand how it felt what they’d never experienced. It is absolutely impossible to do with the attitude ‘If it didn’t happen to me, it didn’t happen at all.’

The immense power of this book hit me hard. I travelled with the Joads in their old jalopy of a truck they bought, having spent a painful chunk of the little money they managed to scrape selling all their life. I felt their fears and their pain. I was terrified every time they encountered hate, aggression, and indifference on their way to California – to the land where, they believed, they’ll have a chance to become people again. Not ‘Okies’; not the useless customers who fill up the tank for a few dollars – not enough to make the gas station’s owner rich – and use the water, drinking it right from the hose and using it to wash the road dust and dirt, which seem to have grown into their skin. Not the annoying clients who walk into a roadside diner and – unlike truck drivers, the worthy customers! – can’t even buy a couple of candies for their equally filthy and miserable kids.

Together with the Joads, I slept on the ground in the makeshift tent – tarpaulin spread over a rope – and I dreamt about the green and lush lands of California. Countless times, I lost hope and felt it blossoming anew upon meeting kind people who didn’t look at me like I’m not a human being.

For me, from fictional characters the Joads have transformed into real people.

Ma Joad, the core of the family, its heart and the engine that never stops. Her inner strength is immense, but it isn’t enough not to let everyone under her care give up. And every time someone does give up, a part of her soul dies. She is fierce and patient, kind and unrelenting. A woman, a wife, a mother – the rock.

Pa Joad. A man who was driven out of his land. The land that, for him, was his life. And still, he goes on. Is it because of his wife Ma Joad? Or because the responsibility for his family outweighs his grief?

Tom Joad. Someone who did the wrong thing but didn’t turn wrong.

Rose of Sharon. A mother-to-be, robbed of the most beautiful time in life of every woman. Instead of thinking about the baby names, forced to spend this magic time dragging through the desert under the tarpaulin, not knowing where she’ll have to give birth to the miracle she is carrying under her heart.

Granma and Grampa. Both so familiar and real that my heart aches to write about them.

“Ever’thing we do – seems to me is aimed right at going’ on. Seems that way to me. Even gettin’ hungry – even bein’ sick; some die, but the rest is tougher. Jus’ try to live the day, jus’ the day.” And this is the ultimate – can’t call it wisdom – the bottom line so to speak of what we can learn about life. Moving forward, go on no matter what – is everything we can do, the only thing we have some control over. Also, we can try to remain human. And not following anything blindly, be it an instinct or a prejudice ingrained in us by our upbringing, is the most important trait of a human being.

“The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck doesn’t follow any ‘standards’ modern authors struggle with every day during our writing journey. It doesn’t grab you from the very first sentence. It settles into the story gradually. There are chapters throughout the book seemingly unconnected to the main plot – but they are integral to the story. It is extremely detailed, making you feel like you are a participant rather than a reader. And it all, following some inexplicable rules, which probably are the essence of creativity, weaves into one perfect whole.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Grapes of Wrath
Reviewed in Canada on 13 June 2023
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One of the best books I’ve ever listened to. The reader’s voice makes you feel you’re right there, as he includes accents. It’s a good story, and with repeated readings, an excellent way for undereducated people to learn about economics, business, politics, farming, and American society. Plus there is a lot of wisdom into human nature, and it’s all just woven into the story of very simple farmers migrating to California during the dust bowl years.
Although it was written in 1939, nothing has changed, so it’s just as relevant today as it was then.
I can’t recommend this book, especially the audiobook, enough.
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Maria Luiza Busnello
5.0 out of 5 stars Edição maravilhosa com Prefácio e notas do Robert Demmot
Reviewed in Brazil on 3 December 2022
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A experiência de leitura nessa edição é demais, começando pela introdução maravilhosa do Robert Demmot, um estudioso da obra de Steinbeck, que também é responsável pelas notas.
O prefácio traz a contextualização e os desdobramentos do impacto da obra na história norte-americana, além de uma análise do autor, de suas obras e muitas dicas sobre filmes, documentários, músicas (há uma canção do Bon Dylan para um dos personagens) e até de uma paródia da revista Mad.
Robert Demmot também é responsável pelas notas de rodapé, que são bem importantes nessa obra, pois há bastante gíria e o autor utiliza a forma coloquial da fala da região em sua escrita.
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Antonio B.
5.0 out of 5 stars Classicone inglese in lingua originale, vi tormenterà fino alla fine.
Reviewed in Italy on 2 March 2024
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Non delude. Non fatevi spoilerare il finale, è davvero un capolavoro. Consiglio di leggere anche la prefazione, perché racconta sull'autore e la sua epoca.
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Alexandra
5.0 out of 5 stars Un clásico de la Gran Depresión
Reviewed in Mexico on 9 April 2021
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La portada es realmente hermosa. La calidad del libro y del papel en general buena. Steinbeck escribe con un inglés muy franco y sus palabras te sumergen en un mundo tan real que vas a olvidar que estás leyendo. Un clásico sobre el periodo de la Gran Depresión en los Estados Unidos (30’).
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