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Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s. It is the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads, driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials emerges a drama about the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, one man's fierce reaction to injustice and one woman's stoical strength, probing the nature of equality and justice in America. A landmark of American literature.