The pearl / John Steinbeck.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Penguin, 2001, c1947.Description: 89 pages ; 18 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0140292934(pbk.) :
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Fiction | Alexander Library | Te Rerenga Mai o Te Kauru Stack Room | Stack Room | STE | 1 | Available | T00342124 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
When Kino, a poor Mexican pearl-diver, finds a magnificent pearl - 'the Pearl of the World' - he believes that all his dreams can come true. He will marry his wife in the church wearing fine new clothes, their infant son will never want for anything - least of all the medicine so recently denied to him - and the boy might one day go to school, learn to read and write. But Kin's vision of a bright future blinds him to the greed and fear the pearl arouses in his neighbours and in himself, and his shining dream begins to blacken and twist. . .
Originally published: United States: Viking, 1947.
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