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The Grapes of Wrath

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The Grapes of Wrath

By: John Steinbeck, Robert DeMott - introduction
Narrated by: Richard Armitage
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'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.'

Shocking and controversial when it was first published, The Grapes of Wrath is Steinbeck's Pultizer Prize-winning epic of the Joad family, forced to travel west from Dust Bowl era Oklahoma in search of the promised land of California. Their story is one of false hopes, thwarted desires and powerlessness, yet out of their struggle Steinbeck created a drama that is both intensely human and majestic in its scale and moral vision.

© John Steinbeck 1939 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

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Best thing I have ever listened to on here. I usually struggle to finish or to even find something that the hearing the sample doesn't put me off, usually due to unbearable voice of narrator. I savoured every moment of this. The skillful narration matches the detailed story for excellence. I feel quite bereft now it's finished.

Brilliant

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Just the most exquisite writing. I was transfixed from start to end. Not only that, but the narration was something to behold. Extraordinary that people of the world are still existing like this, shameful…

Outstanding

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Highly recommend , beautifully read as well, top of my favourite books list .A great read

Excellent book

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The narrator really brought all the characters to life; I was totally invested in their stories and was dying to know- when the book finished- what lay in their future!

Fantastic characterisation

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loved it from beginning to end. fantastic story of a family set in events that actually happened. it really brings the whole era to life and made me look up the history of the great depression.
the narration is brilliant and really brought the book to life. I've been. listening to audiobooks for a year now and this was by far the best by a long long way. makes other stories look trite. will be very hard to beat.

absolutely brilliant

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