Title: The Winter of Our Discontent
First published: 1961
Description: 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.'
Subjects: Classic Literature, Conduct of life, Employees, Fiction, Grocery trade, Literature, Success, Social life and customs, Human behavior, Manners and customs, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, family life, Large type books, Fiction, family life, general
Places: New England, United States
Time periods: 20th century