Pearl S Buck A Biography
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Pearl S Buck A Biography
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Author : Theodore F. Harris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
Pearl S Buck A Biography written by Theodore F. Harris and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Americans categories.
Pearl S Buck
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Author : Peter Conn
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1998-01-28
Pearl S Buck written by Peter Conn and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-01-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
One of the most popular novelists of the twentieth century, winner of a Pulitzer and Nobel Prize for Literature and an active social and political campaigner, particularly in the field of women's issues and Asian-American relations, Pearl Buck has, until now, remained 'hidden in public view'. Best known, perhaps, as the prolific author of The Good Earth, Buck led a career which extended well beyond her eighty works of fiction and non-fiction and deep into the public sphere. In this critically acclaimed biography, Peter Conn retrieves Pearl Buck from the footnotes of literary and cultural history and reinstates her as a figure of compelling and uncommon significance in twentieth-century literary, cultural and political history.
Pearl S Buck
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Author : Theodore F. Harris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
Pearl S Buck written by Theodore F. Harris and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Literary Criticism categories.
Pearl S Buck
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Author : Theodore F. Harris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
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My Several Worlds
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Author : Pearl S. Buck
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2013-05-21
My Several Worlds written by Pearl S. Buck and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A memoir from the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. “Not only [Buck’s] most important book, but—on many counts—her best book” (Kirkus Reviews). Often regarded as one of Pearl S. Buck’s most significant works, My Several Worlds is the memoir of a major novelist and one of the key American chroniclers of China. Buck, who was born to missionary parents in 1892, spent much of the first portion of her life in China, experiencing the Boxer Rebellion first hand and becoming involved with the society with an intimacy available to few outside observers. The book is not only an important reflection on that nation’s modern history, but also an account of her re-engagement with America and the intense activity that characterized her life there, from her prolific novel-writing to her loves and friendships to her work for abandoned children and other humanitarian causes. As alive with incident as it is illuminating in its philosophy, My Several Worlds is essential reading for travelers and readers alike. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Pearl S. Buck including rare images from the author’s estate.
Good Earth
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Author : Pearl S. Buck
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Good Earth written by Pearl S. Buck and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with China categories.
The story of a Chinese peasant and his passionate, dogged accumulation of land during famine, drought, and revolution.
Pearl Buck In China
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Author : Hilary Spurling
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2010-06
Pearl Buck In China written by Hilary Spurling and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
One of the twentieth century’s most extraordinary Americans, Pearl Buck was the first person to make China accessible to the West. She recreated the lives of ordinary Chinese people in The Good Earth, an overnight worldwide bestseller in 1932, later a blockbuster movie. Buck went on to become the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Long before anyone else, she foresaw China’s future as a superpower, and she recognized the crucial importance for both countries of China’s building a relationship with the United States. As a teenager she had witnessed the first stirrings of Chinese revolution, and as a young woman she narrowly escaped being killed in the deadly struggle between Chinese Nationalists and the newly formed Communist Party. Pearl grew up in an imperial China unchanged for thousands of years. She was the child of American missionaries, but she spoke Chinese before she learned English, and her friends were the children of Chinese farmers. She took it for granted that she was Chinese herself until she was eight years old, when the terrorist uprising known as the Boxer Rebellion forced her family to flee for their lives. It was the first of many desperate flights. Flood, famine, drought, bandits, and war formed the background of Pearl’s life in China. "Asia was the real, the actual world," she said, "and my own country became the dreamworld." Pearl wrote about the realities of the only world she knew in The Good Earth. It was one of the last things she did before being finally forced out of China to settle for the first time in the United States. She was unknown and penniless with a failed marriage behind her, a disabled child to support, no prospects, and no way of telling that The Good Earth would sell tens of millions of copies. It transfixed a whole generation of readers just as Jung Chang’s Wild Swans would do more than half a century later. No Westerner had ever written anything like this before, and no Chinese had either. Buck was the forerunner of a wave of Chinese Americans from Maxine Hong Kingston to Amy Tan. Until their books began coming out in the last few decades, her novels were unique in that they spoke for ordinary Asian people— "translating my parents to me," said Hong Kingston, "and giving me our ancestry and our habitation." As a phenomenally successful writer and civil-rights campaigner, Buck did more than anyone else in her lifetime to change Western perceptions of China. In a world with its eyes trained on China today, she has much to tell us about what lies behind its astonishing reawakening.
The Exile
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Author : Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1936
The Exile written by Pearl Sydenstricker Buck and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1936 with Missions categories.
A biography of the author's mother.
The Eternal Wonder
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Author : Pearl S. Buck
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2013-10-22
The Eternal Wonder written by Pearl S. Buck and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-22 with Fiction categories.
DIVDIVDIVLost for forty years, a new novel by the author of The Good Earth/divDIV The Eternal Wonder tells the coming-of-age story of Randolph Colfax (Rann for short), an extraordinarily gifted young man whose search for meaning and purpose leads him to New York, England, Paris, a mission patrolling the DMZ in Korea that will change his life forever—and, ultimately, to love./divDIV Rann falls for the beautiful and equally brilliant Stephanie Kung, who lives in Paris with her Chinese father and has no contact with her American mother, who abandoned the family when Stephanie was six years old. Both Rann and Stephanie yearn for a sense of genuine identity. Rann feels plagued by his voracious intellectual curiosity and strives to integrate his life of the mind with his experience in the world. Stephanie feels alienated from society by her mixed heritage and struggles to resolve the culture clash of her existence. Separated for long periods of time, their final reunion leads to a conclusion that even Rann, in all his hard-earned wisdom, could never have imagined./divDIV A moving and mesmerizing fictional exploration of the themes that meant so much to Pearl Buck in her life, The Eternal Wonder is perhaps her most personal and passionate work, and will no doubt appeal to the millions of readers who have treasured her novels for generations./div/div/div
Pearl S Buck
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Author : Beverly Rizzon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Pearl S Buck written by Beverly Rizzon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Novelists, American categories.