The Grapes of Wrath; John Steinbeck

Publisher: The Easton Press Norwalk, Connecticut Edition: Year: 1968 Description: VF, 559 pp.; The Easton Press First Edition 1968; illustrated with renowned Depression Era artist Thomas Hart Benton's beautiful and provocative lithographs; bound in leather gold pattern decorative front and rear binding covers; gold leaf on all fore edges, a colorful page mark ribbion and bright fabric endpapers highlight this American epic novel of the Great Depression. The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel about an Oklahoma family, the Joads, leaving the dustbowl for a better life in California along with thousands of other destitue farmers from the midwest dreaming of distant prosperity only to find their dreams shattered by corrupt police forces, prejudice, economic exploitation and corporate greed as they struggle to make a new life for themselves in California. This novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1939 for Steinbeck; mentioned repeatedly when he won the Noble Prize for Literature in 196