Book Description Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America’s greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, his many works published as black-spine Penguin Classics for the first time and will feature eye-catching, newly commissioned art. Of this initial group of six titles, The Grapes of Wrath is in a new edition with a completely revised introduction and, for the first time, detailed notes by leading Steinbeck scholar Robert DeMott. Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readers—and to the many who revisit them again and again. Book Dimension length: (cm)18.8 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)13.2

在线阅读本书 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.

故事情節簡單，涵蓋的時間不超過三天，地點是一個美國加州的一個牧場。描寫兩個相互扶持的表兄弟——一位是精明的喬治（George），一位是輕度智障兒雷尼（Lennie）。雷尼因為社會適應較差，老是犯錯，搞的兩人無奈地到處換工作。在富人奧謝（Tyler Ranch）的牧場裡，他們努力工作編織夢想，喬治答應雷尼如果他聽話不要闖禍，將來就可以為自己照顧一窩的兔子，眼看著夢想就要成真。有一次雷尼失手勒死了奧謝兒子柯利的太太梅，鑄成大錯，為了躲避的農場伙計們的追打，雷尼逃跑了。當伙計們爭先恐後地追殺雷尼時，喬治為了不讓雷尼被農場伙計們殺死並受到侮辱，搶先找到雷尼。他舉起槍來，把槍口挨近雷尼的後腦杓，將他射殺。 這部小說用來諷刺社會對弱者的歧視，反而不如雷尼對老鼠的疼惜，《人鼠之間》曾因「語言褻瀆，帶攻擊性，並有種族主義傾向」被視為禁書。1962年史坦貝克因這部小說獲得諾貝爾文學獎。