He was an American author of many books (including sixteen novels, six non-fiction books, and five collctions of short stories). His works always explored the themes of fate and injustice. Before achieving success as a writer, he dropped out of college, working as a manual laborer. In the first 75 years since The Grapes of Wrath was published, it sold 14 million copies. When John Ernst Steinbeck bring the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, he has been called a giant, a giant of American letters. Into the pages of THE GRAPES OF WRATH, you can discover the Joad family, forced to travel west from Dust Bowl, in search of the promised land of California. Their story is one of false hopes and powerlessness, yet out of their struggle the writer created a drama that is both intensely human and majestic in its scale and moral vision. “I’ve done my damndest to rip a reader’s nerves to rags,” Steinbeck said of his novel about a poor family driven from their land in the Great Depression. 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. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Grapes-Wrath-John-Steinbeck/dp/0141185066
