THE GRAPES OF WRATH (Modern Classics) by John SteinbeckThe 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 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