The Grapes of Wrath

Author: Steinbeck, John

Publisher: The Viking Press

Edition: Second Printing Before Publication

Condition: Very Good+
Jacket Condition: Very Good

Publisher’s pictorial linen, endpapers printed with the sheet music for Battle Hymn of the Republic. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even age-toning. Modest shelf-handling wear with soil at the foot of the spine. Owner’s inscription on the front free endpage. In the original, dust jacket, designed by displaying the $2.75 price, lower corner clipped. Very minor edge-wear with older tape reinforcement on the inside; Evenly age-dulled.. The epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers. A 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 into the very nature of equality and justice in America. The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962. Also the basis for the 1940 John Ford directed film, bearing the same name starring Henry Fonda, ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ is widely considered as one of the greatest American films of all time and was one of the first 25 films to be selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being ‘culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant; ‘ Listed by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the twentieth century. Recently added to the Zamorano Select Book List, a compilation and bibliography of great California books.   Goldstone-Payne A12.a.