by John Steinbeck, Margaret Tarner · Pan Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780435270551
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«The Grapes of Wrath» is the adapted novel by John Steinbeck and Margaret Tarner, published by Pan Books in paperback (128 pages, in English).
The novel tells the journey of the Joad family, sharecroppers driven out of Oklahoma during the Great Depression, who migrate to California in search of work and a better life. Along the way they suffer poverty and exploitation, but also find solidarity and resistance among the migrants. A portrait of the struggle for survival and human dignity in times of adversity.
Adapted edition of the 1939 classic, part of the Heinemann Guided Readers graded reading series. Originally published in 1978, aimed at students of English.
Recommended for students of English who wish to read an accessible version of a classic of American literature.
John Ernst Steinbeck was an American writer and novelist. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception". He has been called "a giant of American letters". One of the most widely read authors of the 20th century. He was also an independent journalist and war correspondent during World War II and the Vietnam War.
