<div>John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression follows the western moevement of wone family and a nation in search of work and human dignity. This completely updated Viking Critical Library Edition of <b>The Grapes of Wrath</b> includes the full text of the novel, corrected in 1996, as well as extensive and contextual material including: <ul> <li>Essays placing <b>The Grapes of Wrath</b> in social context, including a 1942 essay by Carey McWilliams about migrant workers and working conditions and a Martin Schockley piece on the reception of <b>The Grapes of Wrath</b> in Oklahoma</li> <li>Eight new essays by John Ditsky, Nellie Y. McKay, MimiReisel Gladstein, Louis Owens, and others</li> <li>An essay on the background to the composition of <b>The Grapes of Wrath</b> by Steinbeck's biographer, Jackson J. Benson</li> <li>An introduction by the editor, a chronology, a list of topics for discussion and papers, and a bibliography</li> </ul> </div>