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Category - Fiction / Classics
Format - Hardcover
Condition - Excellent
Listed - 3 months ago
Ships From - Alabama
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This is the story of a poor fisherman and his wife and baby. When young Kino finds the “Pearl of the World,” he hopes it will bring comfort and health to him and Juana and little Coyotito, but soon discovers that the rare gem is instead a conveyor of greed, envy, and ultimately death. The surface simplicity of the tale has been retained, but Steinbeck has deftly enlarged its meaning into an allegory about a beautiful gift contaminated by the evil and covetous aspects of man’s nature.
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The Pearl
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Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf beds that once brought great wealth to the Kings of Spain and now provide Kino, Juana, and their infant...
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