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Winter of Our Discontent (Penguin Classics (Prebound))
by John Steinbeck

Published: 2008-09
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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, characterizes success in every era and in all its forms as robbery, ...
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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, characterizes success in 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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  "The Winter of Our Discontent"by Anne R. (see profile) 01/28/10

The reviews ran across the board although the book lends itself to a good discussion and the ending allows people to come to different conclusions.

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