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Availability:In StockContributor:John SteinbeckAudience:Young AdultPublish date:1/8/2002Pages:96
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780142000694ISBN-10:142000698UPC:9780142000694Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Literary, PsychologicalSize:8.45 x 5.67 x 0.31 inchesWeight:0.291Product ID:SCVQXPH702

The Pearl

"There it lay, the great pearl, perfect as the moon."

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...
Audience: Young Adult
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780142000694ISBN-10:142000698UPC:9780142000694Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Literary, PsychologicalSize:8.45 x 5.67 x 0.31 inchesWeight:0.291Product ID:SCVQXPH702
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...
Publisher: Penguin Books

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John Steinbeck

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