The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)

Classics Literary Fiction Family Fiction

John Steinbeck

Year:	1961
Authors:	John Steinbeck
Print type:	BOOK

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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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The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)

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