The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+/No dust jacket
- Seller
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About This Item
The Modern Library, New York, 1939. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No dust jacket. 619 pp plus eight pages of Modern Library offerings. Text clean, white with no foxing. Top edge tinted black. Front and rear pastedown and free endpapers feature Modern Library logos with nude runner in grey box. Prior owner attribution and pencil notation on front free endpapers. Pulitzer Prize winning novel of an Oklahoma family's migration to California during the American Depression. Exceptionally good condition with no stains or wear. This book first published in 1939--a possible first edition.
Synopsis
John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath stands as a pivotal piece of American literature. The story follows the Joad family (and thousands of others) as they are driven from the Oklahoma farm where they are sharecroppers during the Great Depression. The drought, economic hardship, and changes in financial and agricultural industries send them searching for dignity and honest work in the bountiful state of California. The novel earned Steinbeck the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1940, and inspired the classic film of the same name the same year. The film starred Henry Fonda as Tom Joad, and Steinbeck's words and ideas shine through that medium. In 1962, Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for the body of his work, and The Grapes of Wrath stands as his most recognized and esteemed book. -
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- 100470
- Title
- The Grapes of Wrath
- Author
- John Steinbeck
- Format/Binding
- Green cloth stamped in black and gilt on cover and spine. Hinges tight. Corners crisp.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1939
- Pages
- 619
- Size
- 5 x 7 1/4
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Depression
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- American Classics;
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