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Publication date 1995 topics world war, 19391945 united states fiction, city and town life fiction. In this masterful tale set in norway during world war ii, steinbeck explores the effects of invasion on both the conquered and the conquerors. A winner of the nobel prize for literature in 1962, he wrote of mice and men 1937 and the pulitzer prizewinning novel the grapes of wrath 1939, both of which examine the lives of the working class and migrant workers during the dust bowl and. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 455 pages and is available in paperback format. Danny is a paisano, descended from the original spanish settlers who arrived in monterey, california, centuries before. Pdf the pearl by john steinbeck download pdf free ebook.
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