The Grapes of Wrath
By John Steinbeck
Edited by Peter Lisca and Kevin Hearle
By John Steinbeck
Edited by Peter Lisca and Kevin Hearle
Part of The Viking Critical Library
Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction
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$31.00
Jul 01, 1997 | ISBN 9780140247756
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Praise
“It is Steinbeck’s best novel, i.e., his toughest and tenderest, his roughest written and most mellifluous, his most realistic and, in its ending, his most melodramatic, his angriest and most idyllic. It is great in the way that Unlce Tom’s Cabin was great. One of the most impassioned and exciting books of the year.” —Time
“One comes away moved, indignant, protesting, pitying. A fiery document of protest and compassion, as a story that had to be told, as a book that must be read.” —Louis Kronenberger, The Nation
Table Of Contents
The Grapes of WrathEditor’s Preface to the Second Edition
Chronology
A Note on the Text
I. The Grapes of Wrath: The Text
Map of the Joads’ Journey
II. The Social Context
Frank J. Taylor, California’s Grapes of Wrath
Carey McWilliams, California Pastoral
Martin Shockley, The Reception of The Grapes of Wrath in Oklahoma
III. The Creative Context
Jackson J. Benson, The Background to the Composition of The Grapes of Wrath
Robert DeMott, “Working Days and Hours”: Steinbeck’s Writing of The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck, Suggestion for an Interview with Joseph Henry Jackson
IV. Criticism
Editors’ Introduction: The Pattern of Criticism
Frederic I. Carpenter, The Philosophical Joads
Peter Lisca, The Grapes of Wrath as Fiction
Robert J. Griffin and William A. Freedman, Machines and Animals: Pervasive Motifs in The Grapes of Wrath
John R. Reed, The Grapes of Wrath and the Esthetics of Indigence
Patrick W. Shaw, Tom’s Other Trip: Psycho-Physical Questing in The Grapes of Wrath
John J. Conder, Steinbeck and Nature’s Self: The Grapes of Wrath
Louis Owens, The American Joads
John Ditsky, The Ending of The Grapes of Wrath: A Further Commentary
Nellie Y. McKay, From “Happy [?]-Wife-and-Motherdom”: The Portrayal of Ma Joad in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath
Mimi Reisel Gladstein, The Grapes of Wrath: Steinbeck and the Eternal Immigrant
Topics for Discussion and Papers
Bibliography
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