Pearl S. Buck
Pavilion of Women
By: 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, unaccented prose...
Published: Jan 2006
Genre: Fiction - General
Pages: 316
Three Daughters of Madame Liang (Buck, Pearl S. Oriental Novels of Pearl S. Buck, 4th,)
By: 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 Madame Liang...
Published: Jan 2004
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Pages: 315
Sons (Good Earth Trilogy, Vol 2)
By: 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 the vast nation,...
Published: Jan 2005
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 313
A House Divided (Good Earth Trilogy, Vol 3)
By: 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 6 years...
Published: Jan 2006
Genre: Fiction - Literary
The New Year
By: Pearl S. Buck
This is a story of hope and reconciliation. It is about an American father and his Eurasian son living in Korea. It is not without some soul-searching and a great deal of understanding on the part of his American wife that they get together as a...
Published: Apr 2007
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Pages: 255
East Wind: West Wind (Buck, Pearl S. Oriental Novels of Pearl S. Buck, 8th,)
By: 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: West Wind'...
Published: Jan 2006
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Pages: 277
Kinfolk (Oriental Novels of Pearl S. Buck)
By: 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 has a mission...
Published: Jan 2004
Genre: Fiction - General
Pages: 406
Imperial Woman
By: Pearl S. Buck
The story of Tzu Hsi is the story of the last Empress in China. In the novel Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck recreates the life of one of the most intriguing rulers during a time of intense turbulence. Tzu Hsi was born into one of the...
Published: Nov 1991
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Pages: 376
Peony (Oriental Novels of Pearl S. Buck Series) (Oriental Novels of Peal S. Buck Series)
By: 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 son. However,...
Published: Jan 2006
Genre: Fiction - Historical - General
Pages: 336
The Promise (Oriental Novels of Pearl S. Buck Series)
By: 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 encounter an...
Published: Jan 2004
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 248
The Mother
By: Pearl S. Buck
Within this novel Ms. Buck paints the portrait of a poor woman living in a remote village whose joys are few and hardships are many. As the ancient traditions, which she bases her philosophies upon, begin to collide with the new ideals of the...
Published: Jan 2004
Genre: Fiction - General
Pages: 302
Dragon Seed (Buck, Pearl S. Oriental Novels of Pearl S. Buck.)
By: Pearl S. Buck
To the Chinese the dragon is not an evil creature, but is a god and the friend of men who worship him. He 'holds in his power prosperity and peace.' Ruling the waters and the winds, he sends the good rain, is hence the symbol of fecundity. In...
Published: Jan 2006
Genre: Fiction - Literary
The Good Earth
By: 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, traditional...
Published: Jun 1999
Genre: Fiction - General
Pages: 418
Mandala of India (Buck, Pearl S. Oriental Novels of Pearl S. Buck, 10th,)
By: Pearl S. Buck
News reaches the couple [Maharana Prince Jagat and his wife, Moti] that their only son, Jai, has been killed by the Chinese in a border skirmish, an inconsolable Moti sends Jagat out to bring the boy's spirit home. On the journey, the prince...
Published: Jan 2004
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Pages: 361
The Big Wave
By: 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 family, too....
Published: May 1986
Genre: Children & Young Adults Fiction - Social Issues - Death & Dying
Pages: 64