The Grapes of Wrath

'Wherever they's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever they's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. If Casy knowed, why, I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad an' - I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry an' they know supper's ready. An' when our folks eat the stuff they raise an' live in the houses they build, why, I'll be there'

 

'Delivered a shock to the English reading world . . . as savage as ever.' Melvyn Bragg, Guardian

 

'Steinbeck's writings form a photograph album of America.' Guardian

 

'The best novels stay in the mind like something lived rather than read.' Independent