The Pearl - 9781642653113

The PearlAuthor(s): Salem Press\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: H.W. Wilson Publishing Co., United States\nImprint: H.W. Wilson Publishing Co.\nISBN-13: 9781642653113, 978-1642653113\nSynopsis\nJohn Steinbecks The Pearl is one of the most popular and most frequently taught of all American novellas. Although it began its life as a brief parable, an allegorical novella about a poor fisherman finding a pearl, becoming greedy, and subsequently suffering a job-like loss, it has remained in the literary conversation for nearly three-quarters of a century for reasons that seem to exceed its original goals. Its Mexican setting, in a location not far from California, gives it a particular interest today as the United States becomes increasingly multicultural. The present volume examines the book from numerous perspectives historical, cultural, social, economic, ethnic, and literary. This book in the Critical Insights series explores the many factors that have made Steinbecks short novel so en.