憤怒的葡萄

by John Steinbeck, 陽耐冬 (Translator)

『憤怒的葡萄』是當代美國最受歡迎的小說之一。本書在美國自出版以來已再版數十次之多，每次都銷售一空，這是因為它的藝術性及通俗性都具有及高的評價。
這本小說不是寫美國民間悲歡離合的故事，而是提出一個美國社會上極為嚴重的問題。它文筆優美，絕不是一般自命平民鄉土作家的那種忸怩之態。

此書一出，使輿論譁然，同時也確立了作者的作家地位。另外，所取用的書名：憤怒的葡萄，立刻使基督徒們聯想到神的憤怒，文中的許多部分也和舊約聖經出埃及記息息相關。

632 pages

About the author

John Ernst Steinbeck was an American writer. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception". He has been called "a giant of American letters."
During his writing career, he authored 33 books, with one book coauthored alongside Edward F. Ricketts, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories. He is widely known for the comic novels Tortilla Flat (1935) and Cannery Row (1945), the multi-generation epic East of Eden (1952), and the novellas The Red Pony (1933) and Of Mice and Men (1937). The Pulitzer Prize–winning The Grapes of Wrath (1939) is considered Steinbeck's masterpiece and part of the American literary canon. By the 75th anniversary of its publishing date, it had sold 14 million copies.
Most of Steinbeck's work is set in central California, particularly in the Salinas Valley and the California Coast Ranges region. His works frequently explored the themes of fate and injustice, especially as applied to downtrodden or everyman protagonists.