The Steinbeck, John 1902-1968 creator author. text bibliography novel Domestic fiction. Political fiction. nyu New York Penguin Books 2006 monographic eng lviii, 464 pages. First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman’s stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. At once a naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel, and transcendental gospel, Steinbeck’s powerful landmark novel is perhaps the most American of American Classics. general John Steinbeck ; introduction and notes by Robert DeMott. Originally published: New York : Viking Press, 1939. Includes bibliographical references (p. [xlvii]-lviii). Texto en inglés. n-us-ca n-us-ok Migrant agricultural laborers Fiction Rural families Fiction Depressions Fiction Labor camps Fiction California Fiction Oklahoma Fiction 813.52 9780143039433 2005058182 DLC 260625 20260626095505.0 14191677 eng