出版社: Penguin Books
出版年: 2000-4-6
页数: 96
定价: USD 11.00
装帧: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140177374
内容简介 · · · · · ·
“There it lay, the great pearl, perfect as the moon.”
Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf beds that once brought great wealth to the Kings of Spain and now provide Kino, Juana, and their infant son with meager subsistence. Then, on a day like any other, Kino emerges from the sea with a pearl as large as a sea gull's ...
“There it lay, the great pearl, perfect as the moon.”
Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf beds that once brought great wealth to the Kings of Spain and now provide Kino, Juana, and their infant son with meager subsistence. Then, on a day like any other, Kino emerges from the sea with a pearl as large as a sea gull's egg, as "perfect as the moon." With the pearl comes hope, the promise of comfort and of security....
A story of classic simplicity, based on a Mexican folk tale, The Pearl explores the secrets of man's nature, the darkest depths of evil, and the luminous possibilities of love.
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约翰·斯坦贝克 作者
作者简介 · · · · · ·
John Steinbeck, born in Salinas, California, in 1902, grew up in a fertile agricultural valley, about twenty-five miles from the Pacific Coast. Both the valley and the coast would serve as settings for some of his best fiction. In 1919 he went to Stanford University, where he intermittently enrolled in literature and writing courses until he left in 1925 without taking a degree...
John Steinbeck, born in Salinas, California, in 1902, grew up in a fertile agricultural valley, about twenty-five miles from the Pacific Coast. Both the valley and the coast would serve as settings for some of his best fiction. In 1919 he went to Stanford University, where he intermittently enrolled in literature and writing courses until he left in 1925 without taking a degree. During the next five years he supported himself as a laborer and journalist in New York City, all the time working on his first novel, Cup of Gold (1929).
After marriage and a move to Pacific Grove, he published two California books, The Pastures of Heaven (1932) and To a God Unknown (1933), and worked on short stories later collected in The Long Valley (1938). Popular success and financial security came only with Tortilla Flat (1935), stories about Monterey’s paisanos. A ceaseless experimenter throughout his career, Steinbeck changed courses regularly. Three powerful novels of the late 1930s focused on the California laboring class: In Dubious Battle (1936), Of Mice and Men (1937), and the book considered by many his finest, The Grapes of Wrath (1939). The Grapes of Wrath won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1939.
Early in the 1940s, Steinbeck became a filmmaker with The Forgotten Village (1941) and a serious student of marine biology with Sea of Cortez (1941). He devoted his services to the war, writing Bombs Away (1942) and the controversial play-novelette The Moon is Down (1942). Cannery Row (1945), The Wayward Bus (1948), another experimental drama, Burning Bright (1950), and The Log from the Sea of Cortez (1951) preceded publication of the monumental East of Eden (1952), an ambitious saga of the Salinas Valley and his own family’s history.
The last decades of his life were spent in New York City and Sag Harbor with his third wife, with whom he traveled widely. Later books include Sweet Thursday (1954), The Short Reign of Pippin IV: A Fabrication (1957), Once There Was a War (1958), The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Travels with Charley in Search of America (1962), America and Americans (1966), and the posthumously published Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters (1969), Viva Zapata! (1975), The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976), and Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath (1989).
Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962, and, in 1964, he was presented with the United States Medal of Freedom by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Steinbeck died in New York in 1968. Today, more than thirty years after his death, he remains one of America's greatest writers and cultural figures.
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Not good enough for a Nobel Prize
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I have to pursuade myself this book got Nobel Prize because people didn't get too much stories in 1947. It is a small book that you can finish within one or two nights before you go to sleep. The plot is simple and not exciting at all: a fisherman got a ev... (展开)> 更多书评 13篇
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0 有用 Ng Chun-Ning 2018-07-22 15:03:05
2018/07/17 - 2018/07/22
0 有用 lonewolf 2020-07-29 12:42:01
The dark side of India.
0 有用 阿辰 2008-11-10 12:07:21
靠。中學時念的課本。還算挺喜歡的。
5 有用 Karasehairey 2008-03-24 21:45:52
万恶的esl阅读..
0 有用 thebluepill 2015-09-21 22:57:48
朋友推荐,睡不着通宵读完了,小小的一本书,神奇的事情一次只发生一件,这个大大的珍珠就跟变成甲虫的格力高里一样。画面感很强,有时候感觉很像在看电影
0 有用 myron 2024-05-27 22:46:26 浙江
里面有个比喻,海湾里大鱼们围猎小鱼群,把它们一步步逼上海面,有些小鱼惊慌地从水中跃出。小鱼的命运早已注定,它们大部分都会活下去,继续成为食物。
0 有用 snow goose 2024-05-17 13:29:02 加拿大
上课读的书…
0 有用 ReachinFailure 2024-04-03 17:09:42 广东
补,高一,American Literature学的第一本书,把我带进John Steinbeck宇宙。
0 有用 bbbblues 2023-12-30 15:18:39 美国
几个段落稍嫌啰嗦,但还是不得不感叹斯坦贝克对细节的观察和讲故事的能力。还有一开始没注意到序言里作者已经交代这是一则寓言性质的故事,导致读到里面脸谱化的人物大感困惑以为在读儿童文学…
0 有用 清炒豆苗 2023-11-26 15:46:19 加拿大
在一个英文书单中作为初级读物推荐,一本只有90页的小书,作者后获诺奖。豆瓣上中文几个版本累计阅读量赶不上本英文条目的阅读量,可见学习英语的重要性