Autor : John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath is a landmark of American literature. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man's fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman's stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation, The Grapes of Wrath is also the story of one Oklahoma family, the Joads, who are driven off their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity.Druh sortimentu : Kniha, Grapes of Wrath, Jazyk : Angličtina, Počet stran : neuvedeno The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck Shocking and controversial when it was first published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer prize-winning epic remains his undisputed masterpiece. Set against the background of dust bowl Oklahoma and Californian migrant life, it tells of the Joad family, who, like thousands of others, are forced to travel West in search of the promised land. Their story is one of false hopes, thwarted desires and broken dreams, yet out of their suffering Steinbeck created a drama that is intensely human, yet majestic in its scale and moral vision; an eloquent tribute to the endurance and dignity of the human spirit. z kategorie Knihy | Cizojazyčná literatura | English literature | Fiction and Literature | Fiction od Penguin Classics naleznete ne e-shopu KnihyDobrovsky.cz! Denis Scott se společně s přítelkyní Alyson vydá proti vlastní vůli na zběsilou honičku za mocným artefaktem, ukrytým tajemným národem Garamantů v hlubinách Sahary. V cestě jim nestojí jenom žoldnéři, sloužící mocné a všehoschopné organizaci, ale i nehostinná poušť, písečné bouře, solná jezera a... cosi krvelačného a děsivého, co přežilo pod jejími písky....