Viking critical library.

Essays: California's Grapes of wrath / Frank J. Taylor -- California pastoral / Carey McWilliams -- Reception of The grapes of wrath in Oklahoma -- Background of the composition of The grapes of wrath / Jackson J. Benson -- "Working days and hours" : Steinbeck's writing of The grapes of wrath / Robert DeMott -- Suggestion for an interview with Joseph Henry Jackson / John Steinbeck -- Philosophical Joads / Frederic I. Carpenter -- Grapes of wrath as fiction / Peter Lisca -- Machines and animals : pervasive motifs in The grapes of wrath / Robert J. Griffin and William A. Freedman -- Grapes of wrath and the esthetics of indigence / John R. Reed -- Tom's other trip : psycho-physical questing in The grapes of wrath / Patrick W. Shaw -- Steinbeck and nature's self : The grapes of wrath / John J. Conder -- American Joads / Louis Owens -- Ending of The grapes of wrath : a further commentary / John Ditsky -- From "Happy (?)-wife-and-motherdom" : the portrayal of Ma Joad in John Steinbeck's The grapes of wrath / Nellie Y. McKay -- Grapes of wrath : Steinbeck and the eternal immigrant / Mimi Reisel Gladstein