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Steinbeck's flawless parable about wealth and the evil it can bring: a pearl-diver's dream turns to greed, fear and violence.
The Pearl is John Steinbeck's flawless parable about wealth and the evil it can bring (Penguin Modern Classics, 128 pages). 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 simplicity and lyrical beauty, The Pearl sets the values of the civilized world against those of the primitive and finds them tragically inadequate. John Steinbeck (1902-68), winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for literature, is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century.
