The Winter of Our Discontent
May 2001 · Penguin UK
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Steinbeck's last great novel focuses on the theme of success and what motivates men towards it. Reflecting back on his New England family's past fortune, and his father's loss of the family wealth, the hero, Ethan Allen Hawley, characterises successin every era and in all its forms as robbery, murder, even a kind of combat, operating under 'the laws of controlled savagery.'
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Diane Gulaboff
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3 April 2020
The sweet context and character of 3/4 of the book left me shocked at the last few chapters. I'm 73 and only recently discovered Steinbeck. He's a stunner.
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Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. His complete works will be available in Penguin Modern Classics.
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