281 pages
Published April 12, 1961 by The Viking Press.
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, murder, even a kind of combat, operating under 'the laws of controlled savagery.'
Subjects
- Grocery trade -- Employees -- Fiction.
- Conduct of life -- Fiction.
- United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.