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The pearl / John Steinbeck.
LIBRA Special PS3537.T3234 P4 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pearl divers--Fiction.
- Pearl divers.
- Avarice--Fiction.
- Avarice.
- Mexico--Fiction.
- Mexico.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Parables.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 87 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- John Steinbeck centennial edition (1902-2002).
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Penguin Books, 2002.
- Summary:
- For the diver Kino, finding a magnificent pearl means the promise of better life for his impoverished family. His dream blinds him to the greed and suspicions the pearl arouses in him and his neighbors, and even his loving wife cannot temper his obsession or stem the events leading to tragedy. Kino and his wife illustrate the fall from innocence of people who believe that wealth erases all problems.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in Woman's home companion as 'The pearl of the world'"--T.p. verso.
- ISBN:
- 0142000698
- 9780142000694
- OCLC:
- 48383615
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