Abstract
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck (First edition, 1939.) Penguin Classics new edition, 2007, PB, 528pp, £7.99, 978-0141185064 Juxtaposed with Noel Streatfeild and Jacqueline Wilson, our childhood bookshelves held a fair amount of rogue adult literature. Aged seven and cluelessly scanning the spines for entertainment, I selected Animal Farm . All allegory was lost on me, of course, but I was dumbstruck by the idea of a book without a happy ending, turning the last page repeatedly, sure I must have missed the final chapter. I first read The Grapes of Wrath at a similarly ill-advised stage of development, during the phase of childhood in which displacement and destruction are terrifying concepts. I was still …
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