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Genre/Form: | Fiction Romans, nouvelles, etc |
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Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
John Steinbeck |
ISBN: | 0141185120 9780141185125 0140292934 9780140292930 |
OCLC Number: | 59577220 |
Notes: | Reprinted with this introduction in the United States in 1994. - Originally published: United States : Viking, 1947 ; London: Heinemann, 1948. |
Description: | xxix, 89 pages ; 20 cm |
Series Title: | Penguin classics |
Responsibility: | John Steinbeck with an introduction by Linda Wagner-Martin ; drawings by José Clemente Orozco. |
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Abstract:
When Kino, a poor Indian pearl-diver, finds 'the Pearl of the world' he believes that his life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana and their son Coyotito will be able to attend school. Obsessed by his dreams, Kino is blind to the greed and even violence the pearl arouses in him and his neighbours.
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