The Winter of Our Discontent
by John Steinbeck
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Ethan Hawley, a descendant of proud New England sea captains, works as a clerk in the grocery store owned by an Italian immigrant. His wife is restless; his teenaged children are troubled and discontented, 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
in English
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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
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"500 copies."
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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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