Pearl S Buck S Novels Of China And America

Author : Anchee Min
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408810521

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Pearl of China by Anchee Min Pdf

In the small southern town of Chin-kiang, two young girls from very different worlds collide and become inseparable companions. Willow is hardened by poverty and fearful for her future; Pearl is the daughter of a Christian missionary who desperately wishes she was Chinese too. Neither could have foreseen the transformation of the little American girl embarrassed by her blonde hair into the Nobel Prize-winning writer and one of China's modern heroines, Pearl S. Buck. When the country erupts in civil war between the Nationalists and the Communists, Pearl and Willow are brutally reminded of their differences. Pearl's family is forced to flee the country and Willow is punished for her loyalty to her 'cultural imperialist' friend. And yet, in the face of everything that threatens to tear them apart, the paths of these two women remain intimately entwined.

Author : Pearl S. Buck
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 815 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453263471

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Sons by Pearl S. Buck Pdf

DIVThe second installment in Pearl S. Buck’s acclaimed Good Earth trilogy: the powerful story of three brothers whose greed will bring their family to the brink of ruin/divDIV Sons begins where The Good Earth ended: Revolution is sweeping through China. Wang Lung is on his deathbed in the house of his fathers, and his three sons stand ready to inherit his hard-won estate. One son has taken the family’s wealth for granted and become a landlord; another is a thriving merchant and moneylender; the youngest, an ambitious general, is destined to be a leader in the country. Through all his life’s changes, Wang did not anticipate that each son would hunger to sell his beloved land for maximum profit./divDIV /divDIVAt once a tribute to early Chinese fiction, a saga of family dissension, and a depiction of the clashes between old and new, Sons is a vivid and compelling masterwork of fiction. /divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Pearl S. Buck including rare images from the author’s estate./div

Author : Pearl S. Buck
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453263556

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Kinfolk by Pearl S. Buck Pdf

Four Chinese-American siblings make an emotional journey to their ancestral home in this novel from the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Good Earth. Dr. Liang is a comfortably well-off professor of Confucian philosophy who fled China because of the government’s crackdown on intellectuals. Now, settled in 1940s New York, he believes in the notion of a pure and unchanging homeland. Under his influence, Liang’s four grown children make the momentous decision to move to China, despite having spent their whole lives in the United States. But as the siblings try in various ways to adjust to a new place and culture, they learn that the definition of home is far different from what they expected. Kinfolk is the involving story of an American family and literary fiction of the highest order. The New York Times–bestselling author of Dragon Seed, China Sky, and many other novels, explores the complexities of immigration, multiculturalism, nationality, and the primordial human longing to find our roots. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Pearl S. Buck including rare images from the author’s estate.

Author : Pearl S. Buck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : China
ISBN : 0743268725

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Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck Pdf

The story of a Chinese peasant and his passionate, dogged accumulation of land during famine, drought, and revolution.

Author : Pearl S. Buck
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781480421196

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Letter from Peking by Pearl S. Buck Pdf

From the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Good Earth: The New York Times–bestselling novel of a Chinese-American family separated by war. Elizabeth and Gerald MacLeod are happily married in China, bringing up their young son, Rennie. But when war breaks out with Japan, Gerald, who is half-Chinese, decides to send his wife and son back to America while he stays behind. In Vermont, Elizabeth longingly awaits his letters, but the Communists have forbidden him from sending international mail. Over time, both the silences and complications grow more painful: Gerald has taken up a new love and teenager Rennie struggles with his mixed-race heritage in America. Rich with Buck’s characteristic emotional wisdom, Letter from Peking focuses on the ordeal of a family split apart by race and history. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Pearl S. Buck including rare images from the author’s estate.

Author : Pearl S. Buck
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781480421158

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God's Men by Pearl S. Buck Pdf

Youthful friends in turn-of-the-century China reunite years later in America, in this New York Times bestseller by the author of The Good Earth. This deeply felt novel tells the story of William Lane and Clem Miller, Americans who meet in China as youths at the end of the nineteenth century. Separated by the Boxer Rebellion, they’re destined to travel wildly different courses in life. From a background of wealth and privilege, William becomes a power-hungry and controlling media magnate. By contrast, Clem, whose family survived on charity growing up, is engrossed by a project—which he works on ceaselessly, perhaps naively, together with his chemist wife—to eliminate world poverty. The two wind up in America and meet again, each successful in his own area, and as similar in their intensity as they are different in their values. God’s Men is a rich and layered portrayal of lives set alight by ambition. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Pearl S. Buck including rare images from the author’s estate.

Author : Rob Hardy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9811635579

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Pearl S. Buck's Novels of China and America by Rob Hardy Pdf

This book, the first single-authored book-length study of Buck's fiction for over twenty years, shows how Buck's thought developed through the medium of her fiction - from her early turbulent years in China to her last lonely days in the United States, with chapters examining her loss of faith in Christianity, her reflections on Chinese life during and after the breakdown of Old China, her voluminous reading, her confrontation with the horrors of American racism and sexism after her return to the United States, and her final metaphorical search for home as she approached death. The book argues that Buck, the first American woman to win both the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes for literature, was a heroic forerunner of those who, while occupying a place in the world, never feel fully at home there; in Buck's case because her Chinese identity throughout her life struggled with her American. For this reason Pearl S. Buck's fiction deserves to be considered alongside that of writers such as Anchee Min, Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan. The book's central claim is that Buck is a major novelist, capable of speaking to the distress of our times, richly deserving the honor she has received in China, and deserving greater recognition in the United States. Rob Hardy is the son of an American mother and English father. His publications include a chapter in a PalgraveMacmillan collection titled Iris Murdoch and Morality and two books - one on psychological and religious narratives in Iris Murdoch's fiction, the other a study of the feminine divine in the work of D.H. Lawrence, Dion Fortune and Ted Hughes. He has also published articles on Iris Murdoch, Paul Bailey, the English social worker novelist John Stroud, as well as on versions of China produced by Charles Dickens and Ezra Pound. .

Author : Rob Hardy
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789811635564

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Pearl S. Buck’s Novels of China and America by Rob Hardy Pdf

This book, the first single-authored book-length study of Buck’s fiction for over twenty years, shows how Buck’s thought developed through the medium of her fiction - from her early turbulent years in China to her last lonely days in the United States, with chapters examining her loss of faith in Christianity, her reflections on Chinese life during and after the breakdown of Old China, her voluminous reading, her confrontation with the horrors of American racism and sexism after her return to the United States, and her final metaphorical search for home as she approached death. The book argues that Buck, the first American woman to win both the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes for literature, was a heroic forerunner of those who, while occupying a place in the world, never feel fully at home there; in Buck’s case because her Chinese identity throughout her life struggled with her American. For this reason Pearl S. Buck’s fiction deserves to be considered alongside that of writers such as Anchee Min, Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan. The book’s central claim is that Buck is a major novelist, capable of speaking to the distress of our times, richly deserving the honor she has received in China, and deserving greater recognition in the United States.

Author : Theodore F. Harris,Pearl S. Buck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : MINN:31951001797845L

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Pearl S. Buck by Theodore F. Harris,Pearl S. Buck Pdf

Author : Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Publisher : Richmond Hill, Ont. : Simon & Schuster of Canada
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : American fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015020692375

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The Three Daughters of Madame Liang by Pearl Sydenstricker Buck Pdf

A novel of China. 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 Madame Liang must keep a low profile for her daughters' sake. Soon her two eldest daughters are called back to serve the People's Republic. Her oldest daughter, Grace, now a doctor, finds meaning through her work. Things are not as easy for her daughter Mercy, a musician who is not in demand in the People's Republic, nor for her new husband who she has brought back to China with her. Watching her two daughters grow apart and knowing that her youngest daughter will never return, Madame Liang must also face the challenges of The Cultural Revolution, and how to keep herself and the restaurant, alive.

Author : Pearl S. Buck
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453263501

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Pavilion of Women by Pearl S. Buck Pdf

A “vivid and extremely interesting” novel of an upper-class Chinese wife’s quest for freedom, from the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Good Earth (The New Yorker). At forty, Madame Wu is beautiful and much respected as the wife of one of China’s oldest upper-class houses. Her birthday wish is to find a young concubine for her husband and to move to separate quarters, starting a new chapter of her life. When her wish is granted, she finds herself at leisure, no longer consumed by running a sixty-person household. Now she’s free to read books previously forbidden her, to learn English, and to discover her own mind. The family in the compound are shocked at the results, especially when she begins learning from a progressive, excommunicated Catholic priest. In its depiction of life in the compound, Pavilion of Women includes some of Buck’s most enchanting writing about the seasons, daily rhythms, and customs of women in China. It is a delightful parable about the sexes, and of the profound and transformative effects of free thought. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Pearl S. Buck including rare images from the author’s estate.

Author : Pearl S. Buck
Publisher : Washington Square Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982147174

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The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck Pdf

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 China, a time when the last emperor still ruled and the sweeping changes of the twentieth century were distant rumblings, with this timeless, evocative classic tale of the honest farmer Wang Lung and his family as they struggle to survive in the midst of vast political and social upheavals. Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize winner Pearl S. Buck traces the whole cycle of life: its terrors, its passions, its ambitions, and rewards. “A comment upon the meaning and tragedy of life as it is lived in any age in any quarter of the globe” (The New York Times), this brilliant novel—beloved by millions—is a universal tale of an ordinary family caught in the tide of history.

Author : Peter J. Conn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1996-08-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521560802

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Pearl S. Buck by Peter J. Conn Pdf

'An elegant, absorbing book.' Washington Post

Author : Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : American fiction
ISBN : UCAL:$B86996

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East Wind: West Wind by Pearl Sydenstricker Buck Pdf

Eastern and Western ways conflict when the daughter of a conventional noble family marries a Chinese man of the new era; a doctor who has trained in America. Only by adopting the Western habits which her husband admires can the bride find love and happiness.

Author : Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Theater
ISBN : 0671786989

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All Under Heaven by Pearl Sydenstricker Buck Pdf