--- product_id: 259493733 title: "The Grapes of Wrath" price: "S/.129" currency: PEN in_stock: true reviews_count: 5 url: https://www.desertcart.pe/products/259493733-the-grapes-of-wrath store_origin: PE region: Peru --- # Epic Great Depression saga Pulitzer Prize-winning classic Published 1939, timeless relevance The Grapes of Wrath **Price:** S/.129 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 📖 Own the story that defined a generation—don’t miss out on this American classic! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Grapes of Wrath - **How much does it cost?** S/.129 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.pe](https://www.desertcart.pe/products/259493733-the-grapes-of-wrath) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Pulitzer Prize Winner:** Experience the critically acclaimed masterpiece that shaped American literature. - • **Penguin Classic Edition:** Trusted, authoritative text with expert introduction and notes for deeper insight. - • **Timeless Historical Epic:** Dive into the Dust Bowl migration and the human spirit during the Great Depression. - • **Culturally Iconic Narrative:** Join millions who’ve been moved by Steinbeck’s portrayal of justice and resilience. - • **Perfect for Thought Leaders:** A must-read for millennials who value social justice, history, and literary depth. ## Overview John Steinbeck’s 'The Grapes of Wrath' is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel first published in 1939, chronicling the Dust Bowl migration during the Great Depression. This Penguin Classics paperback edition features an authoritative text with scholarly introduction and notes, making it an essential read for those interested in American history, social justice, and timeless literary excellence. ## Description The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized--and sometimes outraged--millions of readers. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read A Penguin Classic 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. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,800 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. Review: Book Is Good - I got this book today it is good in condition and looks good and printing nice. Review: Low quality - Basic desertcart print, the pixels of the cover art are visible because it is just copy pasted...... ## Features - Genre: Novels & Stories - Author: John Steinbeck - Target Group: Teens & Young Adults - Format: Paperback - Type: Classic - Book Language: English - Book Origin: United States - Publisher: Penguin - Publication Year: 2006 - ISBN: 9780143039433 ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #14,656 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #87 in Specific Topics in Politics & Government #303 in Historical Fiction #413 in Classic Literature & Fiction | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 6,956 Reviews | ## Images ![The Grapes of Wrath - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81yN7h6yG-L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Book Is Good *by P***U on 8 July 2026* I got this book today it is good in condition and looks good and printing nice. ### ⭐ Low quality *by R***R on 15 May 2024* Basic Amazon print, the pixels of the cover art are visible because it is just copy pasted...... ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ No kicks on Route 66 *by R***S on 23 June 2012* In this novel about Oklahoma farmers forced by the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression to seek a new life for themselves as migrant laborers in California, John Steinbeck may well have written the Great American Novel. "The Grapes of Wrath" is the story of the Joad family, but it's also the story of a people on the move, a nation in crisis, and humanity in its extremes of greed and goodness. The first quarter of the novel tells of young Tom Joad's homecoming after several years in prison for killing a man in a drunken brawl. Contact with his family has been minimal over the years, and he looks forward to seeing his parents, grandparents, and siblings again - but the house is empty, obviously abandoned, like so many others in this land where a combination of drought and poor agricultural techniques has resulted in failure and foreclosure on countless family farms. Fortunately, Tom learns from a neighbor that his family has gone over to his uncle's place, and he arrives there just in time to join them on their way to California, where they've been told there's plenty of work in the state's lush Central Valley. The second quarter of the novel is the story of the Joads' arduous journey west on Route 66, a trip distinguished by breakdowns, death, and intimations by those who have been there that California may be something less than the paradise they've been led to imagine. The final half of the novel follows the Joads after they arrive in California, only to discover that it's possible to starve even in a land of plenty as too many would-be workers are forced to compete for available jobs by accepting wages barely sufficient to buy enough food from one day to the next. The novel ends with one of the most stunning and affecting scenes you'll ever read, and although nothing at all is resolved, the story feels complete. The structure of the novel underscores Steinbeck's creation of the Joads as the human face of a social crisis. Long chapters that advance the plot alternate with short chapters in which the Joads are never mentioned, in which Steinbeck's richly poetic prose establish the physical and moral setting of his work: the conditions leading to the Dust Bowl, the loss of a way of life, the journey to a new beginning, and the disillusionment and growing anger of the migrants - all on a massive scale. These short, poignant chapters are as beautiful, captivating, and necessary as the story chapters, as they provide context and grant a kind of holy universality to the Joads' experiences. Steinbeck's writing is raw, earthy, and viscerally powerful. This is realism at its finest: full of small, telling details, and at times casually vulgar, not for shock value but because life itself is casually vulgar. I was about 13 the first time I read this novel, and the blunt honesty of the writing was a bit much for my somewhat sheltered mind; I remember feeling uncomfortable when an old man reached into his pants and "contentedly scratched under the testicles," as that wasn't a word I was used to seeing in print, at least outside of biology texts. I loved the background chapters but found the Joad chapters distasteful for the first hundred pages or so, when I finally allowed the vivid immediacy of Steinbeck's style to make the characters real for me. As an adult, I have no such difficulties and am able to appreciate the masterful style and rich characterizations immediately. This is a mature novel, about people too crassly human to elicit our pity, but too warmly human not to elicit our compassion. I must admit that as a native Californian, I feel a special connection with this novel. For most of my life I lived just a few blocks away from the old Route 66 (although farther west than the point where the Joads left it to go north). Several of my husband's children live in the Central Valley, around places Steinbeck mentions by name. However, Steinbeck's skill is such that even if you've never been there, you'll close this novel feeling as though you had. This is a novel every American should read - indeed, everyone interested in what it means to be human in trying times. These days more than ever we need this book, we need this reminder of the values of proud self-sufficiency and fierce decency, for it is when we stop pulling, and pulling together, that we lose our way. ## Frequently Bought Together - The Grapes of Wrath - To Kill a Mockingbird - Of Mice and Men --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.pe/products/259493733-the-grapes-of-wrath](https://www.desertcart.pe/products/259493733-the-grapes-of-wrath) --- *Product available on Desertcart Peru* *Store origin: PE* *Last updated: 2026-07-23*