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The Grapes of Wrath
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John Steinbeck
Driven from Oklahoma by poverty, the Joad family crosses the United States toward California during the Great Depression. A social novel about poverty, labor, and dignity.
- First publication
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Original language
- English
- ISBN-10
- 0143039431
- ISBN-13
- 9780143039433
- ASIN
- 0143039431
Why was The Grapes of Wrath challenged?
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck is in this catalog because a sourced record documents an at-risk action in United States in 1939. The novel was banned in several places in the United States in 1939, including Kern County, California, and later challenged many times.
The catalog records the scope as school. That is not a claim that the book is banned everywhere, or that a failed complaint has the same force as a prohibition. Open the sources under Bans and restrictions. Unsourced rumors are omitted.
Readers who search “why was The Grapes of Wrath banned” should read the status label first. Banned, restricted, and at risk are defined on the methodology page and are not interchangeable.
Bans and restrictions
At risk · School
The novel was banned in several places in the United States in 1939, including Kern County, California, and later challenged many times.
A history of local bans and challenges documented by the ALA.
- Source → Banned & Challenged Classics American Library Association
Other questions
- Is The Grapes of Wrath banned?
- In this catalog the primary documented status is “at risk” in United States, 1939. That is not a worldwide ban. Scope and sources are listed below.
- Why was The Grapes of Wrath challenged?
- The novel was banned in several places in the United States in 1939, including Kern County, California, and later challenged many times.
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