The Pearl by John Steinbeck
Summary (from the publisher): A retelling of an old Mexican folk tale involving the discovery of a great pearl and the ensuing misfortune of the fisherman who found it. Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America's greatest writers and cultural figures. Over the next year, his many works published as black-spine Penguin Classics for the first time and will feature eye-catching, newly commissioned art. Penguin Classics is proud to present these seminal works to a new generation of readers and to the many who revisit them again and again. Review: In this short novella, a poor Mexican pearl diver wakens in the contentment of his modest home, happy to be with his wife and baby, and the small but tightknit community around him. Tragedy strikes when the baby is struck by a scorpion and then the white physician in the town refuses to treat him. His luck changes when he finds a massive pearl and he begins to imagine this is ...
