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The Pearl is a novella by the American author John Steinbeck.The story, first published in 1947, [citation needed] follows a pearl diver, Kino, and explores man’s purpose as well as greed, defiance of societal norms, and evil.
Pearl – the narrator of the story, Pearl is shy and quiet and adores her older sister. She turns 11 in the book. She is good friends with Harley with whom she watches badgers, and Mrs. Wilberforce, who lends her books from her personal library. Jodie – The titular character, Jodie is Pearl's rebellious older sister. She is 14 years old.
The Poe Shadow is a novel by Matthew Pearl, first published by Random House in 2006. It tells the story of one young lawyer's quest to solve the mystery of Edgar Allan Poe's death in 1849. It is a work of historical and literary fiction, where some previously unpublished details about the last days of Poe are conveyed through the thoughts and ...
Childhood (pre-reform Russian: Дѣтство; post-reform Russian: Детство, romanized: Détstvo) is the first published novel by Leo Tolstoy, released under the initials L. N. in the November 1852 issue of the popular Russian literary journal The Contemporary. [1] It is the first in a series of three novels, followed by Boyhood and ...
Jesse survives the fall and Eva retrieves the pearl, but they lose it to Cassius, who comes back to retrieve the pearl. The three board their shuttle and return to the Skyship Academy. Cassius, also surviving the blast, returns to his base of operations, the Lodge, in Rochester, New York, the 17th Chosen City.
Pearl (Middle English: Perle) is a late 14th-century Middle English poem that is considered one of the most important surviving Middle English works. With elements of medieval allegory and from the dream vision genre, the poem is written in a North-West Midlands variety of Middle English and is highly—though not consistently—alliterative; there is, among other stylistic features, a complex ...
The Big Wave is a children's novel by Pearl S. Buck, first published as a short story in the October 1947 issue of the magazine Jack and Jill with illustrations from Ann Eshner Jaffe. [1] Buck expanded the story and published it in book form in 1948 through John Day Company, with illustrations from Utagawa Hiroshige and Katsushika Hokusai. [2]
Cleanness (Middle English: Clannesse) is a Middle English alliterative poem written in the late 14th century. Its unknown author, designated the Pearl poet or Gawain poet, also appears, on the basis of dialect and stylistic evidence, to be the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Patience, and may have also composed St. Erkenwald.