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The Winter of our Discontent - John Steinbeck

Description: ISBN 0141186313 / Author: John Steinbeck / Genre: Fiction / Steinbeck's last great novel focuses on the theme of success and what ... more

The Winter of our Discontent - John Steinbeck ... 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 success in every era and in all its forms as robbery, murder, even a kind of combat, operating under 'the laws of controlled savagery.'

Newest Review: ... The main body of his work is set in Northern California where he was born and raised and is populated by the characters he ... more

... had encountered before and during the great depression. New England is a long way from California but it is where he lived for the last decades of his life and he must have seen another side of America in his time there that inspired him to write this polemic against the growing consumerism and failing morals that he saw as undermining a country of which he was fiercely proud. 'The Winter of our Discontent' is the story of Ethan Allen Hawley, a resident of the pleasantly prosperous New England town of New Ba...more

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	The Winter of Our Discontent Pages: 288, Edition: New edition, Paperback, Mandarin Last Update 26.11.2009 05:50	£ 4.04
	The Winter of Our Discontent Release Date: 2003 - 03 - 07, Audio CD, Minuswelt Musikfabrik Last Update 26.11.2009 05:50	£ 12.95
	The Winter of Our Discontent (Penguin ModernClassics) Pages: 288, Edition: New Ed, Paperback, Penguin Classics Last Update 26.11.2009 05:50	£ 6.46	Free! within 24 hours
	The Winter of Our Discontent (PenguinClassics) Pages: 304, Edition: Reissue, Paperback, Penguin Books Last Update 26.11.2009 05:50	£ 7.25
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The Winter of our Discontent - John Steinbeck (1789 words)
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The Winter of our Discontent - John Steinbeck Toccata: A musical composition intended to display the skill and technique of the performer. If ever a novel could be sub-titled Toccata it would be John Steinbeck's 'The Winter of Our Discontent'. It is a piece of writing so skilful and so masterful that you are left in awe of the writer's ability to use the written word. This isn't the greatest story ever told, it isn't even the author's best novel despite winning the Nobel Prize for literature in 1961. It is, however, the best written novel I've ever read. It is a painful paradox that here am I, with my sixth form grasp of English, trying to convey ... Read the complete review

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