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Winter of our Discontent, The
New York: The Viking Press, 1961. Item #06588
Steinbeck’s Final Novel - A Dark Meditation on Conscience and Corruption
The Winter of Our Discontent - First US Edition
STEINBECK, John. The Winter of Our Discontent. New York: The Viking Press, 1961.
First US edition. Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 210 x 140 mm.). [viii], [1–5], 6–311, [1, blank] pp.
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.
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.
The present example, despite the price-clipping and slight wear, remains a notably fresh and appealing copy of Steinbeck’s final major work.
Goldstone & Payne A38a.
Price: $350.00