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The Pearl -- John Steinbeck, Paperback
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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 Jos Clemente Orozco. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author: John Steinbeck
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 10/01/1994
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.23lbs
Size: 7.77h x 5.10w x 0.33d
ISBN: 9780140187380
Age Range: 18-UP
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.1
Point Value: 4
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 7119 / Pearl
Linda Wagner-Martin is Frank Borden Hanes Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the editor of The Portable Edith Wharton.
Author: John Steinbeck
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 10/01/1994
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.23lbs
Size: 7.77h x 5.10w x 0.33d
ISBN: 9780140187380
Age Range: 18-UP
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.1
Point Value: 4
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 7119 / Pearl
About the Author
John Steinbeck, born in Salinas, California, in 1902, grew up in a fertile agricultural valley, about twenty-five miles from the Pacific Coast. Both the valley and the coast would serve as settings for some of his best fiction. In 1919 he went to Stanford University, where he intermittently enrolled in literature and writing courses until he left in 1925 without taking a degree. During the next five years he supported himself as a laborer and journalist in New York City, all the time working on his first novel, Cup of Gold (1929).
Linda Wagner-Martin is Frank Borden Hanes Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the editor of The Portable Edith Wharton.
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