The Winter of Our Discontent
Author: Steinbeck, John
ISBN: 9780141186313
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2001
Pages: 288
Dimensions: 196mm x 129mm x 17mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
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.'
ISBN: 9780141186313
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2001
Pages: 288
Dimensions: 196mm x 129mm x 17mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
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.'
