Best of Classic Fiction (The Pearl / A White Bird Flying / Cross Creek) by John Steinbeck, Bess Streeter Aldrich, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Set of 3 Books)
The 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. Steinbeck’s inspiration was a Mexican folk tale from La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico, which he had heard in a visit to the formerly pearl-rich region in 1940.
A White Bird Flying
Abbie 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.
Grandma Deal’s literary aspirations had been thwarted by the hard circumstances of her life, but Laura vows that nothing, no one, will deter her from a successful writing career. Childhood passes, and the more she repeats her vow the more life intervenes.
Cross Creek
Cross 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.
Go to Giveaway Central to enter and to say thank you here is a bonus entry word: fiction