Steinbeck The Hamlet

John Steinbeck. The Pearl. Bantam, 1983
0553239740 From Library Journal February 27 marks the great Steinbeck's 100th birthday, and the publishing world is celebrating appropriately. The Library of America volume collects the author's little-known 1942 novel The Moon Is Down along with popular standards Cannery Row (1945), The Pearl (1947), and East of Eden (1952). If you prefer individual copies, Penguin is also releasing top-quality paperback Centennial Editions of several of Steinbeck's titles, which in addition to those listed above and those in the Library of America collection include his travelog Travels with Charley in Search of America (ISBN 0-14-200070-1) and the Pulitzer Prize winner The Grapes of Wrath (ISBN 0-14-200066-3), perhaps the greatest American novel of the 20th century. Penguin, which publishes Steinbeck's 26 works, reports that the volumes still sell more than one million copies annually. Happy birthday, big guy! Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Review Steinbeck's peculiarly intense simplicity of technique is admirably displayed in this vignette - a simple, tragic tale of Mexican little people, a story retold by the pearl divers of a fishing hamlet until it has the quality of folk legend. A young couple content with the humble living allowed them by the syndicate which controls the sale of the mediocre pearls ordinarily found, find their happiness shattered when their baby boy is stung by a scorpion. They dare brave the terrors of a foreign doctor, only to be turned away when all they can offer in payment is spurned. Then comes the miracle. Kino find a great pearl. The future looks bright again. The baby is responding to the treatment his mother had given. But with the pearl, evil enters the hearts of men:- ambition beyond his station emboldens Kino to turn down the price offered by the dealers- he determines to go to the capital for a better market; the doctor, hearing of the pearl, plants the seed of doubt and superstition, endangering the child's life, so that he may get his rake-off; the neighbors and the strangers turn against Kino, burn his hut, ransack his premises, attack him in the dark - and when he kills, in defense, trail him to the mountain hiding place- and kill the child. Then- and then only- does he concede defeat. In sorrow and humility, he returns with his Juana to the ways of his people; the pearl is thrown into the sea.... A parable, this, with no attempt to add to its simple pattern. (Kirkus Reviews) --This text refers to the Paperback edition..

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Gegenheimer, Albert Frank (Ed. ): The Arizona Quarterly, Volume 38, Numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4 (1982) 1982 Tucson, Arizona The University of Arizona

Hardcover Very Good with no dust jacket Bound presentation copy of the 1982 issues. Square, tight binding and hinges. Clean and bright pages. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed with light overall shelf wear. Presentation bookplate on ffep signed by editor and presented to Charles Edward Eaton, author of the best poem published in the Quarterly in 1982.; <br><br>Essays, articles, poetry, stories and book reviews. Number 1 (Spring 1982) : Cortazar, "Some Aspects of the Short Story," ; Labrie, "James Merrill at Home: An Interview"; Simard, "The Logic of Unicorns: Beyond Absurdism in Stoppard"; Lenoff, "Life within Limits: Stoppard on the HMS Hamlet"; Rosenzweig, "John Hawkes's Novels of the Seventies: A Retrospective"; Laird, "Current Arizona Bibliography"; poetry by Susan V. Carlos, Jennifer Luckhardt, Bettie Sellers and William Walter De Bolt; story by Larry S. Rudner; book reviews. Number 2 (Summer 1982) : Newberry, "The Red Badge of Courage and The Scarlet Letter"; Berges, "A Different Memory"; Berthold, "Anti-Iealism in Hawthorne's 'The Snow-Image'"; Cristopherson, "Stephen Crane's 'The Upturned Face' as Expressionist Fiction"; poetry by Charles Edward Eaton, William Pillin, Howard G. Hanson, F. C. Rosenberger, Barbara Van Steenburgh; short stories by Andrew M. Greeley, Wolfdietrich Schnurre, Albert A. Azarmi; book reviews. Number 3 (Autumn 1982) : Haslam, "The Other Literary West"; Owens, "Camelot East of Eden: John Steinbeck's Tortilla Flat"; Clark, "The STructure of John Dos Passos's U. S. A. Trilogy"; Fraustino, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Anatomy of Misperception"; Johnson, "The Mssiah of Mesoamerica"; de Oliveira, "The Early National Period in Latin American Literature"; Laird, "Current Arizona Bibliography"; poetry by George Brandon Saul, Willis Barnstone, William Pillin, W. W. Nowlin; short story by Phillip Parotti; book reviews. Number 4 (Winter 1982) : Wagner, "The French Definition"; Davidson, "Pride and Prejudice in Margaret Drabble's A Summer Bird-Cage"; Scruggs, "The Nature of Desire in Tony Morrison's Song of Solomon"; Hall, "Symbiosis and Separation in Lisa Alther's Kinflicks"; Nelson, "Women in Early Western Drama"; McFarland, "Some Observations on Elizabeth Bishop's 'The Fish'"; poetry by Robert F. Whisler, John E. Owen, Rainer Maria Rilke, Bettie Sellers; book reviews. ; 9.0" tall; 386 pages; Signed by Editor

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