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The Winter of Our Discontent is John Steinbeck's last novel, published in 1961. The title comes from the first two lines of William Shakespeare's Richard III: "Now is the winter of our discontent / Made glorious summer by this sun [or son] of York".
- John Steinbeck
- 1961
The Winter of our Discontent, the title from Shakespeare’s Richard III, is a moral allegory with Steinbeck questioning if personal ethics are valued on the grand scale of society, and if the American dream with its offer of prosperity and property becomes a gateway drug for abandoning your ethics in the name of ever more revenue and riches.
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26 de ago. de 2008 · The Winter of Our Discontent. John Steinbeck. Penguin, Aug 26, 2008 - Fiction - 304 pages. The final novel of one of America’s most beloved writers—a tale of degeneration, corruption, and...
- Susan Shillinglaw
- John Steinbeck
- Penguin, 2008
The Winter of Our Discontent is the final novel of American author John Steinbeck (1902-1968). Published in 1961, the themes reflect Steinbeck’s concern with the degradation of American culture and morality.
By William Shakespeare. (from Richard III, spoken by Gloucester) Now is the winter of our discontent. Made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house. In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths; Our bruised arms hung up for monuments;
The Winter of Our Discontent, by John Steinbeck, tells the story of Ethan Allen Hawley, a man from a family that was once very wealthy but fell to misfortune.
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...
