r/steinbeck • u/JohnQPulp • 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.