In April 1939, "Grapes of Wrath" entered the pantheon of literature with a bang. Americans are at loggerheads over the odyssey of the Joad family, tenant farmers from Oklahoma who, like thousands ...

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.

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 ...

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.” Renaissance UK’s managing editor Cecelia Powell said that the “book level ...