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  • Published: 3 July 2017
  • ISBN: 9780241980347
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 544
  • RRP: $27.99

The Grapes of Wrath




A stunning new series look for one of the greatest writers of the 20th century

'To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.'

Drought and economic depression are driving thousands from Oklahoma. As their land becomes just another strip in the dust bowl, the Joads, a family of sharecroppers, decide they have no choice but to follow. They head west, towards California, where they hope to find work and a future for their family. But while the journey to this promised land will take its inevitable toll, there remains uncertainty about what awaits their arrival . . .

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Grapes of Wrath is an epic human drama. Of this novel, Steinbeck himself said: 'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.'

  • Published: 3 July 2017
  • ISBN: 9780241980347
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 544
  • RRP: $27.99

About the author

John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck (1902-68) is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. During the 1930s, his works included The Red Pony, Pastures of Heaven, Tortilla Flat, In Dubious Battle, and Of Mice and Men. The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939, earned him a Pulitzer Prize. In 1962, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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Praise for The Grapes of Wrath

A novelist who is also a true poet

Sunday Times