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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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"[The Pearl] has the distinction and sincerity that are evident in everything he writes."--The New Yorker
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"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
[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
Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. His complete works will be available in Penguin Modern Classics.
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- PublisherBantam
- Publication date1963
- ISBN 10 1555049133
- ISBN 13 9781555049133
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages118
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