- Classic Literature, Conduct of life, Employees, Fiction
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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Grave, classical in form, earnest and prestige.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- John Steinbeck
- First published
- 1961
- Pages
- 304
- Publisher
- VIKING PENGUIN, Mandarin, Proszynski
- Editions
- 54
- Language
- rum, Polish, Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9780143039488
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John Steinbeck was an American writer. He wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel *The Grapes of Wrath* (1939) and the novella *Of Mice and Men* (1937). He wrote a total of 27 books, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and five collections of short stories. In 1962, Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature ([Source][1]). [1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck
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