Cover art for The Winter of Our Discontent
Published
Penguin, May 2001
ISBN
9780141186313
Format
Softcover, 288 pages
Dimensions
19.7cm × 13cm × 1.6cm

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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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