by John Steinbeck, Julia Esplen, K Parsons, T. C. Jupp · Macmillan Education · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780435270070
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«The Pearl» is an adapted version of John Steinbeck's novel, published in 1974 by Macmillan Education in paperback (72 pages, in English).
Kino, a Mexican pearl diver, finds a gem of enormous size that he believes will lift his family out of poverty. But the discovery awakens the greed of those around him and turns his hope into a spiral of fear and danger. It is a parable about ambition and the price of wealth.
Part of the Heinemann Guided Readers series, with text adapted for intermediate-level readers. The original novel was published in 1947.
For intermediate-level English students and secondary school readers working on classics in guided reading.
John Ernst Steinbeck was an American writer and novelist. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception". He has been called "a giant of American letters". One of the most widely read authors of the 20th century. He was also an independent journalist and war correspondent during World War II and the Vietnam War.
