John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath & Other Writings 1936-1941 (LOA #86)

The Grapes of Wrath / The Harvest Gypsies / The Long Valley / The Log from the Sea of Cortez

Author John Steinbeck

Edited by Robert DeMott and Elaine Steinbeck

Series Library of America John Steinbeck Edition

Save

John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath & Other Writings 1936-1941 (LOA #86)

Add to Goodreads

The second volume in The Library of America’s authoritative edition of John Steinbeck features his acknowledged masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath. Written in an incredibly compressed five-month period, the novel had an electrifying impact upon publication in 1939. Tracing the journey of the Joad family from the dust bowl of Oklahoma to the migrant camps of California, Steinbeck creates an American epic, spacious, impassioned, and pulsating with the rhythms of living speech. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize and has since sold millions of copies worldwide.

This text of The Grapes of Wrath has been newly edited based on Steinbeck’s manuscript, typescript, and proofs. Many errors have been corrected, and words omitted or misconstrued by his typist have been restored. In addition, The Harvest Gypsies,…

$51.00

September 1, 1996

Select a Retailer:

John Steinbeck (1902-1968) was one of the most celebrated writers of the last century, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1939 for The Grapes of Wrath and of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.