First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet 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, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, 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.
This Penguin Classics edition contains an introduction and notes by Steinbeck scholar Robert Demott.
John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American author. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception". He has been called "a giant of American letters", and many of his works are considered classics of Western literature.
这部小说真是充满了太多的不幸和太多的悲哀,以至于我读完后还久久不能释怀。 美国的农民原来也有这样的血泪史,我想这是很多人都不知道的,这也给我留下了很深的印象。 美国三、四年代的经济恐慌对农民来说真是一场巨大的灾难。大量农民失去了赖以生存的土地而被迫...
评分 评分【藏书阁打卡】这本书读完久久不能平复心情,最后的结局简直不能再坏的时候却戛然而止,也许这就是好的作品的特色之一吧。 小说以美国二三十年代经济大萧条时期农民破产、逃荒和斗争为背景,阐述了破产农民的凄惨景象。身处社会最底层的劳苦大众遭受资本家、银行家和实业家的盘...
评分只是说我像耶稣一样疲惫了,我像他一样想迷糊论文,我像他一样走到荒野里去,连帐篷都没有。我夜里仰天看着星星,早晨我坐着看太阳出来,中午我从小山上望着起伏的原野:傍晚我就眼睁睁地看着太阳落下去。有时候,我像往常一样祷告。不过我不明白是向谁祷告,为什么祷告。我...
评分This is one of the best books I have read in 2017. I have heard of Grapes of Wrath, book and movie for ages but I never read it until recently. I remember I have read Thinking Fast and Slowin which there is a discussion of whether it is true that "People ge...
Bravo! Totally worth the Nobel!!
评分John Steinbeck是一个伟大的作家。那些被垮掉一代洗了脑以为横穿美国66号公路有多浪漫的文艺青年都该用这本书打脸。
评分这么好的一家,多悲伤的故事
评分中学就知道胡佛屋,但要走进去,一窥其中的景象,还要仰仗这本作品。
评分大师之作。读到最后简直是如饥似渴地读完。非常规整的双线写作,一章描写The Joads,一章用omniscient pov来写整个大萧条年代。两条线的语言完全不一样。六百多页的对话全都是very colloquial tone…估计中文翻译不出这种神韵。斯坦贝克的语言风格也非常鲜明,导致我现在很害怕看到单引号…后半段的时候高潮迭起,希望和绝望交织。绝对的大师之作。
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