The Pearl (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover
When Kino, a poor Indian pearl-diver, finds 'the Pearl of the world' he believes that his life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana and their son Coyotito will be able to attend school. Obsessed by his dreams, Kino is blind to the greed and even violence the pearl arouses in him and his neighbours., Written with lyrical simplicity, The Pearl sets the values of the civilized world against those of the primitive and finds them tragically inadequate.
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"[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
[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
[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
"[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
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.
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- PublisherPenguin Classics
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 0141394900
- ISBN 13 9780141394909
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages96
- IllustratorOrozco Jose-Luis
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