Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression follows the western moevement of wone family and a nation in search of work and human dignity. This completely updated Viking Critical Library Edition of <b>The Grapes of Wrath</b> includes the full text of the novel corrected in 1996 as well as extensive and contextual material including: <p><ul><li>Essays placing <b>The Grapes of Wrath</b> in social context including a 1942 essay by Carey McWilliams about migrant workers and working conditions and a Martin Schockley piece on the reception of <b>The Grapes of Wrath </b>in Oklahoma<li>Eight new essays by John Ditsky Nellie Y. McKay MimiReisel Gladstein Louis Owens and others<li>An essay on the background to the composition of <b>The Grapes of Wrath</b> by Steinbeck's biographer Jackson J. Benson<li>An introduction by the editor a chronology a list of topics for discussion and papers and a bibliography</li></li></li></li></ul></p>