The grapes of wrath
by John Steinbeck
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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.
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Labor camps, Depressions, Labor camps in literature, Classic Literature, Open Library Staff Picks, Pulitzer Prize Winner, Fiction, Migrant agricultural laborers in literature, award:pulitzer_prize=1940, open_syllabus_project, award:pulitzer_prize=fiction, California, American fiction, In literature, Migrant agricultural laborers, Rural families, Migrant agricultural laborers -- Fiction, Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939, Farm family, Great Depression, 1929-1939, Agricultural laborers, Migrant labor, California, fiction, Fiction, historical, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, family life, Fiction, political, Oklahoma, fiction, Large type books, English literature, Prose, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, historical, general, Travailleurs agricoles migrants, Romans, nouvelles, Familles rurales, Crises économiques, Abris pour travailleurs, Historical fiction, Readers for new literates, Reading (Adult education), Steinbeck, john , 1902-1968, Migrant agricultural laborers--california--fiction, Labor camps--california--fiction, Migrant agricultural laborers--fiction, Rural families--fiction, Depressions--fiction, Labor camps--fiction, Medicine in literature, Ps3537.t3234 g8 1996, 813/.52, Ps3537.t3234 g8 2006Places
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Edition Notes
Illustrated t.p., in yellow and black.
Limited ed. of 1146 copies, signed by the artist.
Illustrated lining-papers.
Bound in rawhide and grass-cloth. "The binding of this book represents the first use of rawhide in the world of books"--About the binding of this book (1 leaf (22 x 14 cm.) laid in each v.).
Issued in a 28 cm. slip case.
LC has copy no. 294.
Newman & Wiche. Great and good books, A-13
Limited Editions Club. Bibliography of the fine books published by the Limited Editions Club, 1929-1985, S-8
Gift of Herman Finkelstein.
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