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Ethan Allen Hawley has lost the acquisitive spirit of his wealthy and enterprising forebears, a long line of proud New England sea captains and Pilgrims. Scarred by failure, Ethan works as a grocery clerk in a store his family once owned. But his wife is restless, his teenage children troubled and hungry for the material comforts he cannot provide. Then a series of unusual events reignites Ethan's ambition, and he is pitched on to a bold course where all scruples are put aside...Steinbeck's searing examination of the evil influences of money, immorality, greed and ambition on America drew acclaim from the Nobel Committee who hailed him as an 'independent expounder of the truth'.

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Language

English

ISBN

9780141186313

Number of pages

288

Publisher

Penguin UK

Category

The Winter Of Our Discontent - John Steinbeck

I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.
My dreams are the problems of the day stepped up to absurdity, a little like men dancing, wearing the horns and masks of animals.
It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
No one wants advice, only corroboration.
What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can read only a few and those perhaps not accurately.
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don't dream at all.
When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you got two new people. Maybe that means — hell, it's complicated.