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The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck. Ethan Allen Hawley has lost The Sunday Times. 7 must-read classics for the post-truth era. Buy The Winter of Our Discontent (Penguin Modern Classics) by John Steinbeck from Amazon's Fiction Books Store. Everyday low prices on a huge range of.
The final novel of one of America s most beloved writers a tale of degeneration, corruption, and spiritual crisis In awarding John Steinbeck the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel committee stated that with "The Winter of Our Discontent," he had resumed his position as an independent expounder of the truth, with an unbiased instinct for what is genuinely American.
Ethan Allen Hawley, the protagonist of Steinbeck s last novel, works as a clerk in a grocery store that his family once owned.
With Ethan no longer a member of Long Island s aristocratic class, his wife is restless, and his teenage children are hungry for the tantalizing material comforts he cannot provide. Set in Steinbeck s contemporary America, the novel explores the tenuous line between private and public honesty, and today ranks alongside his most acclaimed works of penetrating insight into the American condition.
This Penguin Classics edition features an introduction and notes by leading Steinbeck scholar Susan Shillinglaw. For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world.
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Set in Steinbeck's contemporary America, the novel explores the tenuous line between private and public honesty, and today ranks alongside his most acclaimed works of penetrating insight into the American condition. With more than 1, titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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Then one day, in a moment of moral crisis, Ethan decides to take a holiday from his own scrupulous standards. This Penguin Classics edition features an introduction and notes by leading Steinbeck scholar Susan Shillinglaw. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1, titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines.
Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. From the Trade Paperback edition.
John Steinbeck, born in Salinas, California, in , grew up in a fertile agricultural valley, about 25 miles from the Pacific Coast. Both the valley and the coast would serve as settings for some of his best fiction. In … More about John Steinbeck. Literary Fiction Fiction Classics Category: Buy the Audiobook Download: