STEINBECK, JohnBiblio.com
Winter of our Discontent The
06588New York: The Viking Press 1961. Steinbeck's Final Novel - A Dark Meditation on Conscience and Corruption<br /> The Winter of Our Discontent - First US Edition<br /> <br /> STEINBECK John. The Winter of Our Discontent. New York: The Viking Press 1961.<br /> <br /> First US edition. Octavo 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 210 x 140 mm. viii 1-5 6-311 1 blank pp.<br /> <br /> Publisher's blue cloth front cover stamped in blind spine blocked in black and lettered in silver top edge stained pale blue. In the original color pictorial dust jacket price-clipped with very light chipping to spine extremities. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket.<br /> <br /> Steinbeck's last novel The Winter of Our Discontent is a searching and often somber exploration of morality in modern America. Set in a declining New England town the novel follows Ethan Allen Hawley a man of integrity increasingly tempted - and ultimately compromised - by the corrosive pressures of ambition social expectation and material success. Darker in tone than much of Steinbeck's earlier work it stands as a late-career reckoning with questions of ethics identity and the cost of prosperity.<br /> <br /> The present example despite the price-clipping and slight wear remains a notably fresh and appealing copy of Steinbeck's final major work.<br /> <br /> Goldstone & Payne A38a. New York: The Viking Press, 1961 unknown
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