The Pearl

By: John Steinbeck, Jose-Luis Orozco (Illustrator)

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Paperback | 1 October 2000 | Edition Number 1

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128 Pages

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19.5 x 13 x 1

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From the author of Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck's The Pearl is a flawless parable about wealth and the evil it can bring

When Kino, an Indian pearl-diver, finds 'the Pearl of the world' he believes that his life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana in church and their little boy, Coyotito, will be able to attend school. Obsessed by his dreams, Kino is blind to the greed, fear and even violence the pearl arouses in him and his neighbours. Written with haunting simplicity and lyrical simplicity, The Pearl sets the values of the civilized world against those of the primitive and finds them tragically inadequate.

About the Author

John Steinbeck (1902-68), winner of the 1940 Pulitzer Prize and the 1962 Nobel Prize for Literature, is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. During the Second World War Steinbeck served as a war correspondent, his journalism later collected in Once There Was a War (1958), and he was awarded the Norwegian Cross of Freedom for his portrayal in The Moon is Down (1942) of Resistance efforts in northern Europe. His best-known works include the epics The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and East of Eden (1952), and his tragic novella Of Mice and Men (1937). He died in 1968.

Industry Reviews

"Steinbeck's peculiarly intense simplicity of technique is admirably displayed in this vignette - a simple, tragic tale of Mexican little people, a story retold by the pearl divers of a fishing hamlet until it has the quality of folk legend." - Kirkus Reviews

"[The Pearl] has the distinction and sincerity that are evident in everything he writes." - The New Yorker

"Form is the most important thing about him. It is at its best in this work." - Commonweal

"[Steinbeck has] long trained his prose style for such a task as this: that supple unstrained, muscular power, responsive to the slightest pull of the reins." - Chicago Sunday Times

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