Author: John Steinbeck, Robert Demott (Introduction). Penguin USA; New York. Reissued Edition (Oct. 1992). 619 Pages. The Grapes of Wrath is a novel by John Steinbeck that exposes the desperate conditions under which the migratory farming families of America during the 1930's lived, through a personal approach and heavy symbolism. The novel tells of one family's migration west to California through the great economic depression of the 1930's. The bank took possession of their land because the …showed first 75 words of 1481 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1481 total…our country or of the Great Depression. It was quite a lengthy novel, but you could feel the story because Steinbeck was writing about his own time period, not his ancestor’s nor his children, but something he actually had lived through. The book stirs emotion from deep within. The powerfully thick description allowed me to picture the book in my mind's eye. Overall it was a novel, worthy of the Pulitzer Prize it won.