The Pearl John Steinbeck

By:

Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York Penguin Group 1992Description: 90 pISBN:

9780140177374

Other title:

Pearl of the world

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

813.52
Fic

Summary: Annotation: For the diver Kino, finding a magnificent pearl means the promise of a better life for his impoverished family. His dreams blind him to the greed that the pearl arouses in him and his neighbors. Baring the fallacy of the American dream-that wealth erases all problems-Steinbeck's classic illustrates our fall from innocence.

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Originally published in the U.S. as: Pearl of the world.

Annotation: For the diver Kino, finding a magnificent pearl means the promise of a better life for his impoverished family. His dreams blind him to the greed that the pearl arouses in him and his neighbors. Baring the fallacy of the American dream-that wealth erases all problems-Steinbeck's classic illustrates our fall from innocence.

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