The winter of our discontent

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The final novel of one of America’s most beloved writers—a tale of degeneration, corruption, and spiritual crisis

In awarding John Steinbeck the 1962 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. Then one day, in a moment of moral crisis, Ethan decides to take a holiday from his own scrupulous standards. Set in Steinbeck’s contemporary 1960 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 seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 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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PMC Winter Of Our Discontent

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Ethan allen hawley has lost the acquisitive spirit of his wealthy forebears a long line of proud new england sea captains and pilgrims scarred by failure ethan works as a grocery clerk in a store his family once owned but his wife is restless and his teenage children troubled and hungry for the Uiterlijk 4 januari in huis .. MEER INFO

In Dubious Battle

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Features jim nolan disenfranchised and alone his family destroyed by the system desperate to find his place in the world jim joins the communist party and becomes entangled in a strike of migrant workers which spirals out of control unflinchingly detailing the apocalyptic violence that breaks o Uiterlijk 4 januari in huis .. MEER INFO

The Winter of Our Discontent

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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 murde Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 26 augustus 2008

Aantal pagina's: 291

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: John Steinbeck

Tweede Auteur: Susan Shillinglaw

Hoofduitgeverij: Penguin Classics

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 127 mm

Product hoogte: 19 mm

Product lengte: 197 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 127 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 18 mm

Verpakking lengte: 194 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 369 g

EAN: 9780143039488

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