The Pearl

John Steinbeck

The Pearl
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
24 September 2014
Pages
128
ISBN
9780141394688

The Pearl

John Steinbeck

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.

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