The Winter of Our Discontent
About this book
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
- american fiction (fictional works by one author)
- classic literature
- conduct of life
- employees
- fiction
- fiction, family life
- fiction, family life, general
- grocery trade
- human behavior
- large type books
- literature
- manners and customs
- social life and customs
- success