304 pages
English language
Published Nov. 19, 2008 by Penguin Books.
304 pages
English language
Published Nov. 19, 2008 by Penguin Books.
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.'