The Grapes of Wrath

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By John Steinbeck

Driven off their Oklahoma land by drought, debt and the tractors that replaced them, the Joads load everything they own onto a battered truck and set out for California on the promise of picking work.

What they find when they arrive is hundreds of thousands of families exactly like them, and growers who understand that the more of them there are, the less a day’s picking has to be paid. Steinbeck’s novel of the Great Depression, written while it was still going on.

First published 1939