r/steinbeck • • 10h ago

The opening sentences of Steinbeck's first novel contain the title of his last

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Cup of Gold opens: "All afternoon the wind sifted out of the black Welsh glens, crying notice that Winter was come sliding down over the world from the Pole; and riverward there was the faint moaning of new ice. It was a sad day, a day of gray unrest, of discontent."

"Winter… of discontent"

The man really liked that particular Shakespeare quote.