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The winter of our discontent / John Steinbeck ; introduction and notes by Susan Shillinglaw.
- Title
- The winter of our discontent / John Steinbeck ; introduction and notes by Susan Shillinglaw.
- Author
- Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968
- Publication
- New York : Penguin Books, 2008.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Shillinglaw, Susan
- Description
- xxxiii, 291 p.; 20 cm.
- Summary
- From the Publisher: From a swashbuckling pirate fantasy to a meditation on American morality-two 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 "resumed his position as an independent expounder of the truth, with an unbiased instinct for what is genuinely American." 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.
- Series Statement
- Penguin classics
- Uniform Title
- Penguin classics
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Didactic fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Fiction
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxxi]-xxxiii).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction / Susan Shillinglaw -- Suggestions for further reading -- Winter Of Our Discontent -- Explanatory notes.
- ISBN
- 9780143039488
- 0143039482
- LCCN
- ^^2008018574
- OCLC
- 226292063
- SCSB-11326158
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library