The Pearl

John Steinbeck

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Penguin Classics
24 September 2014

Classic fiction (Children's&YA)

Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics

Steinbeck's lyrical and moving novel, now in an elegant clothbound edition

The Pearl is Steinbeck's 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 and lyrical simplicity, The Pearl sets the values of the civilized world against those of the primitive and finds them tragically inadequate.

By: John Steinbeck
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 205mm, Width: 135mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 227g
ISBN: 9780141394688
ISBN 10: 0141394684
Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 24 September 2014
Audience: Young adult , Preschool (0-5)
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

John Steinbeck (1902-68) is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. During the 1930s, his works included The Red Pony, Pastures of Heaven, Tortilla Flat, In Dubious Battle, and Of Mice and Men. The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939, earned him a Pulitzer Prize. In 1962, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.