Book cover for The winter of our discontent
Description
From a swashbuckling pirate fantasy to a meditation on American moralityatwo classic Steinbeck novels make their black spine debuts IN AWARDING John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel committee stated that with "The Winter of Our Discontent," he had aresumed his position as an independent expounder of the truth, with an unbiased instinct for what is genuinely American.a Ethan Allen Hawley, the protagonist of the novel, works as a clerk in a grocery store that his family once owned. With the decline in their status, his wife is restless, and his teenage children are hungry for the tantalizing material comforts he cannot provide. Then one day, in a moment of moral crisis, Ethan decides to take a holiday from his own scrupulous standards.
Publisher Penguin Books
ISBN10 0140187537
ISBN13 9780140187533
Number of Pages 276
File Size DL-124MB
Shelf Number HA521
Grade Range 12 - 12
Ages 18 - 99
Format Audio Plus Download, EPub Download