The 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 The Grapes of Wrath includes the full text of the novel corrected in 1996 as well as extensive and contextual material including:Essays placing The Grapes of Wrath 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 The Grapes of Wrath in OklahomaEight new essays by John Ditsky Nellie Y. McKay MimiReisel Gladstein Louis Owens and othersAn essay on the background to the composition of The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck''s biographer Jackson J. BensonAn introduction by the editor a chronology a list of topics for discussion and papers and a bibliography