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The Grapes of Wrath: Text and Criticism Revised Edition
Contributor(s): Steinbeck, John (Author), Lisca, Peter (Editor), Hearle, Kevin (Editor)
ISBN: 0140247750     ISBN-13: 9780140247756
Publisher: Penguin Books
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Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: July 1997
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Annotation: John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize--winning epic of the Great Depression follows the western movement of one family and a nation in search of work and human dignity.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Historical - General
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 96000137
Series: Viking Critical Library
Physical Information: 1.7" H x 5" W x 7.7" (1.20 lbs) 736 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1930's
- Cultural Region - Western U.S.
- Cultural Region - West Coast
- Geographic Orientation - California
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 5983
Reading Level: 4.9   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 25.0
 
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Publisher Description:
John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression follows the western moevement of wone family and a nation in search of work and human dignity. This completely updated Viking Critical Library Edition of The Grapes of Wrath includes the full text of the novel, corrected in 1996, as well as extensive and contextual material including:

  • Essays placing The Grapes of Wrath in social context, including a 1942 essay by Carey McWilliams about migrant workers and working conditions and a Martin Schockley piece on the reception of The Grapes of Wrath in Oklahoma
  • Eight new essays by John Ditsky, Nellie Y. McKay, MimiReisel Gladstein, Louis Owens, and others
  • An essay on the background to the composition of The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck's biographer, Jackson J. Benson
  • An introduction by the editor, a chronology, a list of topics for discussion and papers, and a bibliography