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Mr John Steinbeck
The Winter of Our Discontent

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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, characterises successin 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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Format EPUB ● Seiten 288 ● ISBN 9780141923024 ● Verlag Penguin Books Ltd ● Erscheinungsjahr 2001 ● herunterladbar 6 mal ● Währung EUR ● ID 2269601 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM

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