The winter of our discontent
by John Steinbeck
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From the Publisher: From a swashbuckling pirate fantasy to a meditation on American morality-two classic Steinbeck novels make their black spine debuts. In awarding John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel committee stated that with The Winter of Our Discontent, he had "resumed his position as an independent expounder of the truth, with an unbiased instinct for what is genuinely American." Ethan Allen Hawley, the protagonist of the novel, works as a clerk in a grocery store that his family once owned. With the decline in their status, his wife is restless, and his teenage children are hungry for the tantalizing material comforts he cannot provide. Then one day, in a moment of moral crisis, Ethan decides to take a holiday from his own scrupulous standards.
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Classic Literature, Conduct of life, Employees, Fiction, Grocery trade, Literature, Success, Social life and customs, Human behavior, Manners and customs, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, family life, Large type books, Fiction, family life, generalPlaces
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The Winter of Our Discontent (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
April 1, 1996, Penguin Classics
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0140187537 9780140187533
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The winter of our discontent
1986, Penguin Books, Bantam Books
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The Winter of Our Discontent
November 1976, Bantam Books, published by arrangement with The Vicking Press, published simultaneously in Canada and USA, Viking Press
Paperback
- Bantam 28th Printing
0553029983 9780553029987
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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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