The Grapes of Wrath The Grapes of Wrath The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1962. Set during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on the Joads, a poor family of tenant farmers driven from their Oklahoma home by drought, economic hardship, agricultural industry changes, and bank foreclosures forcing tenant farmers out of work. Due to their nearly hopeless situation, and in part because they are trapped in the
A Decayed Family 1890 Volume 6 came out in the alternative version, "A Decayed Family" included. A Decayed Family A Decayed Family () is an unfinished novel by Nikolai Leskov, subtitled "The Family Chronicles of Princes Protazanov" (Семейная хроника князей Протозановых). Parts one and two of it were first published in the 1874 Nos. 7,8 and 10 of "The Russian Messenger" as part of a trilogy which also included "Old Years in Plodomasovo" (1869) and "The Cathedral Clergy" (1872). The publication of the novel has led to Leskov's severing all ties with "The Russian Messenger". The main issue was the magazine's editor-in-chief Mikhail