TY  - GEN
AU  - Steinbeck, John,
TI  - The pearl
SN  - 9780582461475
AV  - PS3537.T32 S74 2000
PY  - 2000///
CY  - New York
PB  - Pearson Education Limited
KW  - Pearl divers
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Avarice
KW  - Mexico
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N1  - "Originally published in Woman's home companion as 'The pearl of the world'"--T.p. verso.

N2  - For the diver Kino, finding a magnificent pearl means the promise of  better life for his impoverished family.  His dream blinds him to the greed and suspicions the pearl arouses in him and his neighbors, and even his loving wife cannot temper his obsession or stem the events leading to tragedy. Kino and his wife illustrate the fall from innocence of people who believe that wealth erases all        problems.

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