The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers.
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven...

Two novels by Russian literary giant Dostoyevsky are adapted into stage plays by David Fishelson. The brothers karamazov centers on three passionate brothers and their drinking, womanizing father. In The idiot, kindly, child-like Prince Myshkin returns to the decadent social whirl of 1860's St. Petersburg.

Eddie Carbone helps out his wife Beatrice's impoverished Sicilian cousins when they enter the U.S. illegally. But when his niece, Catherine, falls in love with one of the cousins, Eddie's affection for his niece turns into obsession.