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The Pearl
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  • Published: 30 January 2017
  • ISBN: 9780141368979
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $22.99

The Pearl

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Paperback
5 Oct 2017
Paperback
30 Jan 2017
Hardback
24 Sept 2014
EBook
3 Mar 2011
EBook
23 Oct 2000
Audiobook
28 Jan 2021
Paperback
15 July 2017
Paperback
28 May 2014
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A brilliant novella that is a fable about the dangers of unexpected wealth by great American novelist, John Steinbeck, author of The Grapes of Wrath.

Kino is a desperately poor Mexican-pearl diver. But when he finds 'The Pearl of the World' he believes that his life will be magically transformed. Obsessed by his dreams, Kino is blind to the greed, fear and even violence the pearl arouses in his neighbours - and himself. A haunting and timeless tale of the potential dangers of unexpected wealth, by Nobel prizewinner John Steinbeck, author of The Grapes of Wrath.
  • Published: 30 January 2017
  • ISBN: 9780141368979
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $22.99
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John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck (1902-68) is remembered as one of the greatest and best-loved American writers of the twentieth century. During the 1930s, his works included The Red Pony, Pastures of Heaven, Tortilla Flat, In Dubious Battle, and Of Mice and Men. The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939, earned him a Pulitzer Prize. In 1962, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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