{"product_id":"the-grapes-of-wrath-75th-anniversary-edition","title":"The Grapes of Wrath: 75th Anniversary Edition by John Steinbeck","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe 75th anniversary hardcover edition of Steinbeck's crowning literary achievement \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads, driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into haves and have-nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man's fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman's stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes the very nature of equality and justice in America. As Don DeLillo has claimed, Steinbeck \"shaped a geography of conscience\" with this novel where \"there is something at stake in every sentence.\" Beyond that--for emotional urgency, evocative power, sustained impact, prophetic reach, and continued controversy--\u003ci\u003eThe Grapes of Wrath \u003c\/i\u003eis perhaps the most American of American classics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo commemorate the book's 75th anniversary, this volume is modeled on the first edition, featuring the original cover illustration by Elmer Hader and specially designed endpapers by Michael Schwab.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"One comes away moved, indignant, protesting, pitying. A fiery document of protest and compassion, as a story that had to be told, as a book that must be read.\" \u003cbr\u003e--Louis Kronenberger, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"It is Steinbeck's best novel, i.e., his toughest and tenderest, his roughest written and most mellifluous, his most realistic and, in its ending, his most melodramatic, his angriest and most idyllic. It is great in the way that \u003ci\u003eUncle Tom's Cabin\u003c\/i\u003e was great. One of the most impassioned and exciting books of the year.\" \u003cbr\u003e-- \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Steinbeck \u003c\/strong\u003e(1902-1968) was born in Salinas, California, and died in New York City. He remains one of the most prolific and influential authors of his generation and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45975776657594,"sku":"9780670016907","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0444\/2213\/5968\/files\/imageloader_154c790b-4626-4065-ac49-00083bbd1e5f.jpg?v=1781043066","url":"https:\/\/naturenurture.shop\/products\/the-grapes-of-wrath-75th-anniversary-edition","provider":"nature+nurture","version":"1.0","type":"link"}