Picture is "The Grapes of Wrath," adapted by Nunnally Johnson from John Steinbeck's best-seller. It is an absorbing, tense melodrama, starkly realistic, and loaded with social and political fireworks.

Not long ago, my friend Michelle and I formed an informal two-person book club. We recognized that we both loved talking about the novels we were reading but had never quite fit into standard book ...

At 22,000 square feet, it's the largest bookstore in the entire state of California ... things like "The Sound and the Fury" or "The Grapes of Wrath," titles that are older but people value ...

Told in Steinbeck’s trademark empathic, colloquial, and observational style, ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ is a story of strength, suffering, family, injustice, humanity, and hope in the face of ...