Fülszöveg
John Steinbeck
When this novel was first published, it took both
America and Britain by storm. It is the story of
a dispossessed community, driven from its bit
of land in Oklahoma by the implacable march of
industrial progress. The big corporations
which own the land the 'squatters' occupy
decide that the time has come to mechanize
agriculture - and so the bulldozers demolish
overnight small-holdings and cabins that
represent so many years of hope and labour. Like
their fathers before them, these displaced citizens
of America set out on the migrant trail to the
West, but not, alas, to find a land of plenty in the
'Golden West'.
' I have no hesitation in saying that The Grapes
of Wrath is one of the most vital stories that I
have read for some time This is a terrible
and an indignant book; yet it is not without
passages of lyrical beauty, and the ultimate
impression is that of the dignity of the human
spirit under the stress of the most desperate
conditions'...
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Fülszöveg
John Steinbeck
When this novel was first published, it took both
America and Britain by storm. It is the story of
a dispossessed community, driven from its bit
of land in Oklahoma by the implacable march of
industrial progress. The big corporations
which own the land the 'squatters' occupy
decide that the time has come to mechanize
agriculture - and so the bulldozers demolish
overnight small-holdings and cabins that
represent so many years of hope and labour. Like
their fathers before them, these displaced citizens
of America set out on the migrant trail to the
West, but not, alas, to find a land of plenty in the
'Golden West'.
' I have no hesitation in saying that The Grapes
of Wrath is one of the most vital stories that I
have read for some time This is a terrible
and an indignant book; yet it is not without
passages of lyrical beauty, and the ultimate
impression is that of the dignity of the human
spirit under the stress of the most desperate
conditions' - Guardian
' The Grapes of Wrath belongs with Moby Dick
and Leaves of Grass. And you cannot put anything
much higher than that' - News Chronicle
Cover drawing by Brian Keogh
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