The Grapes of Wrath.
"And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed": First Edition of John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath.
STEINBECK, John.
$2,500.00
Item Number: 145448
New York: The Viking Press, 1939.
First edition of this pivotal Pulitzer prize-winning novel, with “First Published in April 1939” on the copyright page and first edition notice on the front flap of the dust jacket. Octavo, original pictorial beige cloth, pictorial endpapers. Very good in a very good dust jacket with some toning to the spine and extremities. Jacket design by Elmer Hader.
'The Grapes of Wrath' is the kind of art that is poured out of a crucible where pity and indignation merge. Its power and importance do not lie in its political insight but in its intense humanity. "[It] is the American novel of the season, probably the year, possibly the decade" (Clifton Fadiman). The basis for the 1940 John Ford directed film, bearing the same name starring Henry Fonda, 'The Grapes of Wrath' is widely considered as one of the greatest American films of all time. In 1989, this film was one of the first 25 films to be selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being 'culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant;' Listed by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the twentieth century.
