The Winter of Our Discontent
12 hrs. 19 min.
Language
Russian
Author
John Steinbeck
Author
John Steinbeck
Narrator
Vyacheslav Gerasimov
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.
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.
