The Winter of Our Discontent

Name: The Winter of Our Discontent
Price: 9.49 EUR
Author: John Steinbeck
ISBN: 9780141923024

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John Steinbeck

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Paru le : 03/05/2001

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,... > Lire la suite

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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.'

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Date de parution : 03/05/2001
Editeur : PENGUIN
Collection : Penguin Modern Classics
ISBN : 0-14-192302-4
EAN : 9780141923024
Format : ePub
Nb. de pages : 288 pages

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- Pages : 288
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Biographie de John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck (1902-68) is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. During the 1930s, his works included The Red Pony, Pastures of Heaven, Tortilla Flat, In Dubious Battle, and Of Mice and Men. The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939, earned him a Pulitzer Prize. In 1962, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.