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“There it lay, the great pearl, perfect as the moon.”
 
A Penguin Classic 

One of Steinbeck’s most taught works, The Pearl is the story of the Mexican diver Kino, whose discovery of a magnificent pearl from the Gulf beds means the promise of a 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 Juana cannot temper his obsession or stem the events leading to tragedy. This classic novella from Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck examines the fallacy of the American dream, and illustrates the fall from innocence experienced by people who believe that wealth erases all problems.
 
This Penguin Classics edition features an introduction by Linda Wagner-Martin and original illustrations by Mexican artist José Clemente Orozco.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of clas

The Pearl

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“There it lay, the great pearl, perfect as the moon.”  A Penguin Classic  One of Steinbeck’s most taught works, The... Read more

    Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
    Publication Date: 10/1/1994
    ISBN13: 9780140187380, 978-0140187380
    ISBN10: 0140187383

    Fiction , Contemporary Fiction

    Description

    “There it lay, the great pearl, perfect as the moon.”
     
    A Penguin Classic 

    One of Steinbeck’s most taught works, The Pearl is the story of the Mexican diver Kino, whose discovery of a magnificent pearl from the Gulf beds means the promise of a 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 Juana cannot temper his obsession or stem the events leading to tragedy. This classic novella from Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck examines the fallacy of the American dream, and illustrates the fall from innocence experienced by people who believe that wealth erases all problems.
     
    This Penguin Classics edition features an introduction by Linda Wagner-Martin and original illustrations by Mexican artist José Clemente Orozco.

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of clas

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