Steinbeck is no stranger to the novella and his shorter writings are just as much-loved as his longer works (perhaps even more). Of them, for emotion, economy and adventure, The Pearl is hard to surpass.
Kino, a Mexican pearl-diver, has found the biggest pearl anyone in the village has ever seen and everything is going to change for him. His son will receive the medical attention he needs, will be educated in the city and his descendants will never be peasants again, and his wife will wear new-made clothes. But in the village envy quickly turns to evil and while the pearl-buyers undercut and baffle him, Kino inadvertently kills a man in the pearl’s attempted robbery. He is now an outlaw, and must run for his life.
128 Pages
Steinbeck, J. (1945). The pearl ; with an introduction by Linda Wagner-Martin. Penguin.
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