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The Winter of Discontent (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
The Winter of Discontent - Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century Author:John Steinbeck 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... more » laws of controlled savagery'.« less