The Winter of Our Discontent

12 hrs. 19 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author John Steinbeck

Narrator Vyacheslav Gerasimov

Description

The novel “The Winter of Our Discontent,” the last book by the classic of 20th-century world literature and Nobel Prize laureate John Steinbeck, captured the growing atmosphere of social and moral-spiritual unease that emerged in the United States and across the entire Western world in the early 1960s—and introduced its author as a deep and sensitive psychologist.

Ethan Allen Hawley, a descendant of a powerful family, who had received a higher liberal-arts education, knew history and literature well, and was a Latin enthusiast, was forced to work as a salesperson in Marullo’s macaroni shop. Ethan’s reputation is spotless, and after passing through a series of tempting but unlawful offers, he turns his honesty into a kind of extortion. Like a serpent shedding its old skin, he casts off his former self to appear in the guise of a monster before whom even the city’s magnates will tremble.

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