Title:
The winter of our discontent / John Steinbeck ; introduction and notes by Susan Shillinglaw.
ISBN:
9780143039488
9780140187533
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Publication Information:
New York : Penguin Books, 2008.
Physical Description:
xxxiii, 291 pages ; 20 cm.
Contents:
Introduction / Susan Shillinglaw -- Suggestions for further reading -- Winter Of Our Discontent -- Explanatory notes.
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.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 4.4 13.0 58711.
Reading Counts RC High School 9 16 Quiz: 12721 Guided reading level: NR.
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Audience:
770L Lexile
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OCLC Number:
ocn226292063
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