书名：The Pearl  珍珠

作者：John Steinbeck
出版社名称：Penguin
出版时间：2000

语种：英文

ISBN：9780140177374
商品尺寸：10.7 x 1 x 17.5 cm
包装：平装
页数：90（以实物为准）
The Pearl《珍珠》是美国著名作家斯坦贝克创作的一部脍炙人口的自然主义寓言小说，长期以来作为美国中学文学课本的入选篇目。本篇发表于一九四七年，是根据墨西哥民间故事改写的一部优秀中篇小说。一对贫穷的印第安年轻夫妻采到一颗稀世珍珠，他们由此产生了朴素、单纯的遐想，却勾起了城里各色人等的种种邪念。他们在迫害中奋起反抗，以抛掉珍珠来重新求得安宁与纯真。这里，美与丑、善与恶的尖锐对比激起人们返璞归真的愿望。

The Pearl is a haunting and timeless tale of the dangers of unexpected wealth by Nobel prizewinner John Steinbeck, author of The Grapes of Wrath. It is one of The Originals from Penguin - iconic, outspoken, first.

Kino is a desperately poor Mexican pearl diver. But when he finds The Pearl of the World he believes that his life will be magically transformed. Obsessed by his dreams, Kino is blind to the greed, fear and even violence the pearl arouses in his neighbours - and himself.

在墨西哥北部的采珠中心托巴斯城，渔民奇诺一家过着贫赛安宁的日子，有一天，奇诺的儿子小狗子被蝎子螯了，生命危在旦夕却无钱求医，奇诺在海里捞到一颗巨大的珍珠，满以为从此可以过上幸福的生活，可是珍珠商们却联合起来杀价，还有人半夜去偷他的珍珠，奇诺的妻子胡安娜认为这是一颗不祥之物，准备偷偷把它扔回海里，奇诺追上夺了回来，在回家的路上他们又遭到伏击，奇诺杀了敌人，他和妻子回家却发现自己的茅屋被大火吞噬，他们赖以生存的小船也被人毁了。在向京城逃亡的途中，奇诺一家三口又遇到了追杀，小狗子被流弹击中而亡，奇诺杀了几个敌后踏上归途。把那颗带来灾难的大珍珠还给了大海。

"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.

约翰·斯坦贝克（1902-1968），美国著名作家，其作品深爱受读者喜爱。1962年，斯坦贝克因为“现实主义的、富于想象的创作”以及“富于同情的幽默和对社会的敏感观察”被授予诺贝尔文学奖。代表作有长篇小说《愤怒的葡萄》，中篇小说《人鼠之间》、《煎饼坪》及《小红马》等。

John Steinbeckis perhaps best known for Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath, which led to his Nobel Prize for Literature award in 1962. Born in Salinas, California in 1902, Steinbeck grew up in a fertile agricultural valley about twenty-five miles from the Pacific Coast: both valley and 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 labourer 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).