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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
- 311 pp
- 1961
- 1961
The Winter of Our Discontent. John Steinbeck, Susan Shillinglaw (Editor) 4.00. 48,289 ratings2,997 reviews. Ethan Allen Hawley, the protagonist of Steinbeck’s last novel, works as a clerk in a grocery store that his family once owned.
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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
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 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.
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.'
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.
