Pearl S. Buck

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Pavilion of Women

Pearl S. Buck

A slight pallor, emanating from the dispassionate heroine, pervades the book. Yet it is a searching, adult study of women written with high seriousness and sympathy, which should find a multitude of women readers. Mrs. Buck's grave, u...

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Published: Jan 2006

Three Daughters of Madame Liang (Buck...

Pearl S. Buck

After her husband takes a concubine, Madame Liang sets out on her own, starting an upscale restaurant and sending her daughters to America to be educated. At the restaurant, the leaders of the People's Republic wine and dine and Ma...

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Published: Jan 2004

A House Divided (Good Earth Trilogy, ...

Pearl S. Buck

A House Divided, the third volume of the trilogy that began with The Good Earth and Sons, is a powerful portrayal of China in the midst of revolution. Wang Yuan is caught between the opposing ideas of different generations. After ...

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Published: Jan 2006

East Wind: West Wind (Buck, Pearl S. ...

Pearl S. Buck

In her acceptance speech upon receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature, Pearl Buck said, 'The mind of my own country and of China, my foster country, are alike in many ways, but above all, in our common love of freedom'. 'East Wind: W...

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Published: Jan 2006

Kinfolk (Oriental Novels of Pearl S. ...

Pearl S. Buck

Ms. Buck tells us that East and West can meet on the ground of affectionate understanding and that human similarities can prevail over the gulf between cultures....She has something to say and she says it with lucid ease....If she ...

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Published: Jan 2004

Sons (Good Earth Trilogy, Vol 2)

Pearl S. Buck

Second in the trilogy that began with The Good Earth, Buck's classic and starkly real tale of sons rising against their honored fathers tells of the bitter struggle to the death between the old and the new in China. Revolutions sweep ...

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Published: Jan 2005

Peony (Oriental Novels of Pearl S. Bu...

Pearl S. Buck

Young Peony is sold into a rich Chinese household as a bondmaid -- an awkward role in which she is more a servant, but less a daughter. As she grows into a lovely, provocative young woman, Peony falls in love with the family's only...

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Published: Jan 2006

The Promise (Oriental Novels of Pearl...

Pearl S. Buck

While the Japanese army attacks Burma Road during World War II, a band of Chinese soldiers are sent to rescue a British-American platoon, pinned down in Burma. The dangers that await the brave soldiers are heightened, as they encou...

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Published: Jan 2004

The Good Earth (Oprah's Book Club)

Pearl S. Buck

Pearl Buck (1892-1973) wrote THE GOOD EARTH in three months, based on her observations of Chinese life and culture while she lived in China as the daughter of American missionaries. In the novel, Buck tells the story of a simple, trad...

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Published: Jun 1999

The Big Wave

Pearl S. Buck

Kino lives on a farm on the side of a mountain in Japan. His friend, Jiya, lives in a fishing village below. Everyone, including Kino and Jiya, has heard of the big wave. No one suspects it will wipe out the whole village and Jiya's f...

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Published: May 1986

A Gift for the Children

Pearl S. Buck

An illustrated treasury of stories for kids, including two Christmas tales, from the beloved Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning author of The Good Earth. This collection of more than twenty stories brings readers back to the timele...

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Published: Mar 2020

China Sky

Pearl S. Buck

China Sky, first published in 1941, is a romance by Pearl S. Buck set in war-time China. Dr. Gray Thompson, an American missionary doctor, works alongside Dr. Sara Durand in a hospital he has built in a small Chinese village, as Japan...

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Published: Dec 2023

Fighting Angel: Portrait of a Soul

Pearl S. Buck

Fighting Angel: Portrait of a Soul is Pearl S. Buck's profoundly touching memoir of her zealous Southern Presbyterian missionary father, Absalom Sydenstricker. Andrew (as he is called in the book) set off for China in 1880 and spent m...

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Published: Oct 2019

The Child Who Never Grew: A Memoir

Pearl S. Buck

A "groundbreaking" memoir about raising a special-needs daughter in an era of misinformation and prejudice—a classic that helped transform our perceptions (Publishers Weekly). It was my child who taught me to understand s...

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Published: Nov 2017

The Eternal Wonder

Pearl S. Buck

A recently discovered novel written by Pearl S. Buck at the end of her life in 1973, The Eternal Wonder tells the coming-of-age story of Randolph Colfax (Rann for short), an extraordinarily gifted young man whose search for meaning an...

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Published: Oct 2013

The Good Earth

Pearl S. Buck

The timeless Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece following a humble farmer's journey through 1920s China returns with this beautifully repackaged edition that celebrates its nearly ninety years as an American classic. Travel to 1920s...

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Published: May 2020
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