The Pearl
Author(s): John Steinbeck
Kino is a Mexican pearl fisher in the Gulf of California. When he and his wife, Juana, have a baby, their joy is complete ... until the infant is bitten by a scorpion. Kino finds a great pearl worth a fortune, but it brings only tragedy and evil to his family.
General Information
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- : pengui
- : pengui
- : 0.1
- : 26 July 2001
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : John Steinbeck
- : Paperback
- : New edition
- : 813.52
- : 128
- : illustrations
More About The Product
John Steinbeck (1902 - 1978) grew up in California and used the valley and coast as the setting for some of his greatest fiction. He studied at Stanford University and then worked as a labourer and journalist in New York as he worked on the first of his many fine novels. The Grapes Of Wrath, often considered his finest book, was published in 1939. John Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.
