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Buck, Pearl S. The Good Earth
Washington Square Press September 15, 2 0-7432-7293-5 / 9780743272933 Paperback Very Good
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: The New York Times A comment upon the meaning and tragedy of life as it is lived in any age in any quarter of the globe. Pittsburgh Post Gazette One of the most important and revealing novels of o ur time. Boston Transcript One need never have lived in China or know anything about the Chinese to understand it or respond to its appeal. About the Author Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker was born on June 26, 1892, in Hillsboro, West V irginia. Her parents were Southern Presbyterian missionaries, most often st ationed in China, and from childhood, Pearl spoke both English and Chinese. She returned to China shortly after graduation from Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia, in 1914, and the following year, she met a young agricultural economist named John Lossing Buck. They married in 1917 , and immediately moved to Nanhsuchou in rural Anhwei province. In this imp overished community, Pearl Buck gathered the material that she would later use in The Good Earth and other stories of China. Pearl began to publish stories and essays in the 1920s, in magazines such a s The Nation, The Chinese Recorder, Asia, and The Atlantic Monthly. Her fir st novel, East Wind, West Wind, was published by the John Day Company in 19 30. John Day's publisher, Richard Walsh, would eventually become Pearl's se cond husband, in 1935, after both received divorces. In 1931, John Day published Pearl's second novel, The Good Earth. This became the bestselling book of both 1931 and 1932, won the Pulitzer Prize and the Howells Medal in 1935, and would be adapted as a major MGM film in 1937. Other novels a
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