3 Review(s)

9789390600922 | The PearlThe Pearl is a novella by the American author John Steinbeck. The story, first published in 1947, follows a pearl diver, Kino, and explores man’s purpose as well as greed, defiance of societal norms, and evil.9789392554667 | A White Bird FlyingAbbie Deal, the matriarch of a pioneer Nebraska family, has died at the beginning of A White Bird Flying, leaving her china and heavy furniture to others and to her granddaughter Laura the secret of her dream of finer things.9789355715937| Cross CreekCross Creek is a classic in modern American literature which reads Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's experiences in the remote Florida hamlet of Cross Creek where she lived for more than a decade.9789355712141 | The Sun Also RisesThe Sun Also Rises is a 1926 novel by American writer, Ernest Hemingway. The novel is a roman à clef as the characters are based on real people in Hemingway’s circle, and the action is based on real events, particularly Hemingway’s life in Paris in the 1920s and a trip to Spain in 1925 for the Pamplona festival and fishing in the Pyrenees.