«The Grapes of Wrath», escrit per John Steinbeck, guanyador del Premi Nobel de Literatura al any 1962.

It was first published in 1939, the Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles of the 1930s. It tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads. They are driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their repeated collisions against an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human. 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, 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.