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The Grapes of Wrath | 
 enlarge | Author: John Steinbeck
Publisher: Penguin
Category: Book
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Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 5364
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 544
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.4 x 1.6
ISBN: 0140292926
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780140292923
ASIN: 0140292926
Publication Date: April 26, 2001
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Unfortunately 5 is the highest June 24, 2008
Demi Grammatopoulos (UK)
else this and Ulyses would be the only 20th century works I'd give more. Joyce for his epic poetry, Steinbeck for his enlightenment. Read him and understand where you live!
 Steinbeck strikes again June 20, 2008
Mr. Davendra Singh (London)
I am going to go against the grain here and only give this book three stars. I am not doubting the quality of the book and as always Steinbeck has provided a vivid account of American life. My main problem with this book is that it is rather a miserable book. I know if you had been evicted from your land and forced to work for a measly sum you would also have very little to laugh about. I also had trouble with the local dialect and I almost stopped reading after the first 100 pages.
Heres the thing, after the first 100 pages the accent really grows on you and the story really takes shape. There is very little mention of the plight of the black population in this book which might have been nice of Steinbeck to mention.
The ending is weird, I wont spoil it, I think Steinbeck was going for some level of enduring human spirit, no matter how you square it, it really is just a little odd.
Where have the world's great writers gone? June 3, 2008
ModdyBoy67 (UK)
There are very few books that can be classified as truly magnificent, but this is one of them. You don't have to be American, you don't have to have lived through hard times.
Just marvel at the perfection of Steinbeck's work. It was truly tragic when I finished this masterpiece, for there were very few works of brilliance left to discover.....
Staggering literary achievement February 19, 2008
Mr. C. J. Waldron
This is simply one of the greatest books ever written. Powerful, always challenging, shocking, yet more human than almost anything else I have ever read. I dont think you can ever see things in the same way after reading this book. The story of the Joads and America at that time will stay with me forever. Steinbeck is the very essence of great literature.
Genius in black and white February 13, 2008
Alec Willetts (Tours, France)
Having just slated Pride & Prejudice I would like to set the record straight and announce my undying love for this book.
It is a work of pure, raw, tense, teeth-clenched, beauty.
Has the whole gamut of human emotions ever been so evocatively put in print? I doubt it.
Magnificent.
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