Angry Grapes

Author: (American) John Steinbeck
Translator: Hu Zhongchi
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Publish Date: 2004-03-01
Features: This book is the masterpiece of the renowned American writer and Nobel Prize laureate John Steinbeck. During the Great Depression of the 1930s in the United States, many farmers went bankrupt and became homeless. The author followed the farmers of Oklahoma as they wandered to California, and the scenes he witnessed deeply shocked him. "There are five thousand families about to starve to death, the problem is very acute." With his profound and realistic pen, he depicted in the book the struggles and resistance of American farmers on the brink of life and death. After its publication, it caused panic among the ruling classes in various states, and many states banned the novel. Even a novel titled The Grapes of Joy was published in response. However, nothing could shake the important position of The Grapes of Wrath in the history of modern American literature.