Pearl S. Buck

Pearl S. Buck's epic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a China that was -- now in a Contemporary Classics edition. Though more than sixty years have passed since this remarkable novel won the Pulitzer Prize, it has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics. "I can only write what I know, and I know nothing but China, having always lived there," wrote Pearl Buck. In The Good Earth she presents a graphic view of a China when...

The scene is laid in a great house, which like all Chinese family homes in a series of court years surrounded by one-story rooms, all connected by passage-ways. Here three generations live, together and yet with privacy. But as the story mounts, the fact emerges that the author is actually writing not only about China but about the infinite variety of relationships between women and men.

His family and village swept away by a tidal wave, Jiya learns to live with the ever-present dangers from the sea and volcano.

The conclusion to Buck’s celebrated Good Earth trilogy: the story of a man’s return to a homeland embroiled in revolution On the eve of a popular rebellion, the Chinese government starts to crack down in cities across the country. Fleeing the turmoil, Wang Yuan, the son of a famous general and grandson of the patriarch of The Good Earth, leaves for America to study agriculture. When he returns to China six years later, he encounters a nation still...

The New York Times–bestselling, multigenerational family saga that reaches from America to India by the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Good Earth. Beginning in the 1890s, Pulitzer Prize-winner Pearl S. Buck's Come, My Beloved describes an American family's involvement with India over four generations. Touched by the poverty he encounters in Bombay, self-made millionaire David MacArd establishes a seminary for Christian missionary workers, and...

Set between the end of World War II and 1948, this novel describes the Liang family. China's turbulent political situation had sent Professor Liang to New York City where he extolled the glories of old time China to his four children. James leaves for Peking to practice medicine. Louise marries an American soldier who takes her back to New York. Mary, a teacher and James find contentment in the way of life of the old tradition while bringing education...

There would never be another love. She had known them all, each love different from the other, each meaningful, each illuminating and valuable and to be cherished. Nor was it ended. The torch of love must be handed on from one heart to another, from one generation to the next, for without love life was meaningless and the spirit died. Yes, that was her duty and her delight, to pour her love into Jared's life and see him grow. It was not a love affair....

Through eyes of wisdom and tolerance, of courage and compassion, the Nobel Prize winner looks back over a life rich in memories of people, places, and events. Pearl Buck writes with refreshing modesty, yet with complete candor, of the great and the lowly, of epochal events and of simple, everyday occurrences, of her own country and of others which had meant home to her. Wherever she went, whatever she did, she found the human drama unfolding before...

At the outbreak of war, a half-Chinese man sends his family back to America, beginning an absence punctuated only by his letters, and a son who must make sense of his mixed-race ancestry alone 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...

The New York Times–bestselling historical novel about the Japanese invasion of Nanking from the Pulitzer and Nobel Prize–winning author of The Good Earth. Farmer Liang Tan knows only a quiet, traditional life in his remote Chinese farming community. When news filters in that Japanese forces are invading the country, he and his fellow villagers believe that if they behave decently to the Japanese soldiers, the civilians might remain undisturbed....