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  The Winter of Our Discontent (Paperback) By (author) John Steinbeck

  

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  Short Description for The Winter of Our DiscontentFocuses on the theme of success and what motivates men towards it. This book introduces the hero, Ethan Allen Hawley, who characterizes success in every era and in various forms as robbery, murder, even a kind of combat, operating under 'the laws of controlled savagery'.
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  • Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS
  • Published: 03 May 2001
  • Format: Paperback 288 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Classics
  • ISBN 13: 9780141186313 ISBN 10: 0141186313
  • Sales rank: 33,865

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Full description for The Winter of Our Discontent

• 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, characterizes success in every era and in all its forms as robbery, murder, even a kind of combat, operating under 'the laws of controlled savagery'.