The Winter Of Discontent

Author : John Steinbeck
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780143039488
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Winter of Our Discontent written by John Steinbeck and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-08-26 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final novel of one of America’s most beloved writers—a tale of degeneration, corruption, and spiritual crisis A Penguin Classic In awarding John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel committee stated that with The Winter of Our Discontent, he had “resumed his position as an independent expounder of the truth, with an unbiased instinct for what is genuinely American.” Ethan Allen Hawley, the protagonist of Steinbeck’s last novel, works as a clerk in a grocery store that his family once owned. With Ethan no longer a member of Long Island’s aristocratic class, his wife is restless, and his teenage children are hungry for the tantalizing material comforts he cannot provide. Then one day, in a moment of moral crisis, Ethan decides to take a holiday from his own scrupulous standards. Set in Steinbeck’s contemporary 1960 America, the novel explores the tenuous line between private and public honesty, and today ranks alongside his most acclaimed works of penetrating insight into the American condition. This Penguin Classics edition features an introduction and notes by leading Steinbeck scholar Susan Shillinglaw. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Tara Martin López
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1781386013
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Winter of Discontent written by Tara Martin López and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-24 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reassessment of the myth of the British ‘Winter of Discontent’, 1978–79, from the perspective of those involved, in particular, grassroots activists and the growing number of female activists.

Author : Andy Beckett
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 9780571221370
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When the Lights Went Out written by Andy Beckett and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most dynamic, relevant and exciting British history book of the year, shedding a whole new light on overlooked recent history in Great Britain.

Author : Jeanne M. Dams
Publisher : Forge Books
ISBN 13 : 146682087X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Winter of Discontent written by Jeanne M. Dams and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2004-12-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dorothy Martin's neighbor and closest friend, Jane Langland, has been having a fling with Bill Fanshawe--or, as much of a fling as two 80-year olds in a small town are allowed. Now there are rumors that Jane and Bill may move in together, and Dorothy needs to know exactly what's happening. What neither woman expects is that Bill is missing, and that within a day his body is going to be discovered in the tunnel under the Sherebury town museum. Why would anyone want to harm a harmless old man, a historian who loves the town and the people who live there? Given his age, and the strange letter found in his hand, Dorothy thinks that whatever happened has its roots in WWII. Everyone, including her husband, retired police office Alan, looks askance, but when another old man is murdered--a man who served at the same RAF base as Bill--no one denies Dorothy's suspicions may be right. Dorothy investigates, knowing that the best Christmas gift she can give her friend Jane is the truth about what happened to Bill. And Jane has a surprise of her own for Dorothy... At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : John Shepherd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781784991159
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crisis? What Crisis? written by John Shepherd and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full length account of the 1979 'winter of discontent'

Author : Tara Martin López
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1781380295
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Winter of Discontent written by Tara Martin López and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reassessment of the myth of the British 'Winter of Discontent', 1978-79, from the perspective of those involved, in particular, grassroots activists and the growing number of female activists.

Author : David Meyer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313391076
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Winter of Discontent written by David Meyer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1990-06-26 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nuclear freeze movement grew more quickly than even the most optimistic activists thought possible, as large numbers of Americans became convinced that there was something wrong with United States defense policy and that they could do something about it. This analysis provides the first comprehensive history of the nuclear freeze movement, approaching it from three distinct perspectives. Changes in the politics and policy of nuclear weapons created an opportunity for a dissident movement. Intermediating forces in American politics influenced the situation. The efforts of activists and organizations to build a protest movement and their interaction with American political institutions provide the third perspective. A Winter of Discontent addresses both the broad spectrum of movement activity and the political context surrounding it. The text explores the challenge of the nuclear freeze movement to the content of United States national security policy and the policy making process. By analyzing the freeze, a theoretical framework for understanding the origins, development and potential political influence of other protest movements in the United States can be developed. The book also strives to integrate analysis of peace movements into an understanding of the policy context in which they emerge. This volume is essential for courses in social movements, strategic policy, American politics and political sociology. Antinuclear freeze activists and students of peace studies will also find this work invaluable.

Author : Nancy Reagan
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0375760512
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Love You, Ronnie written by Nancy Reagan and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2002-02-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No matter what else was going on in his life or where he was—traveling to make movies, at the White House, or sometimes just across the room—Ronald Reagan wrote letters to Nancy Reagan, to express his love, thoughts, and feelings, and to stay in touch. Through these extraordinary letters and reflections, the private character and life of an American president and his first lady are revealed. Nancy Reagan reflects with love and insight on the letters, on her husband, and on the many phases of their life together. A love story spanning half a century and the private life of this classic American couple come vividly alive in this rare and inspiring book.

Author : Susan Maushart
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459623576
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Winter of Our Disconnect written by Susan Maushart and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For any parent who's ever IM-ed their child to the dinner table - or yanked the modem from its socket in a show of primal parental rage - this account of one family's self-imposed exile from the Information Age will leave you ROFLing with recognition. But it will also challenge you to take stock of your own family connections, to create a media ...

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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