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THE ETERNAL WONDER

PEARL S. BUCK

A lost novel of self-discovery and love from the New York Times –bestselling and Nobel and Pulitzer prize–winning author of The Good Earth . 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 tha...

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THE ANGRY WIFE

PEARL S. BUCK

A novel of a Southern woman trapped in the past and two brothers divided by the Civil War, from the New York Times –bestselling author of The Good Earth . Lucinda Delaney is a southern belle ruled by a vision of life that no longer exists. The Civil War has come and gone and her side has lost, yet she is determined to proceed as if nothing has changed—a denial that stokes the f...

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A BRIDGE FOR PASSING

PEARL S. BUCK

The Pulitzer and Nobel Prize–winning and New York Times –bestselling author's memoir of making a movie in 1960s Japan while mourning the loss of her husband. Pearl S. Buck's children's story, The Big Wave, about two young friends whose lives are transformed when a volcano erupts and a tidal wave engulfs their village, was eventually optioned as a movie. A Bridge for Passing nar...

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COME, MY BELOVED

PEARL S. BUCK

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 Da...

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DEATH IN THE CASTLE

PEARL S. BUCK

A "thrilling" historical mystery about impoverished British aristocrats from the New York Times –bestselling author of The Good Earth ( Boston Herald ). Sir Richard Sedgeley and Lady Mary are broke and without an heir to the castle that's been in their family for centuries. Tourists are infrequent, and the offers they've received are not ones they can live with: a state-run pri...

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THE GOOD EARTH TRILOGY

PEARL S. BUCK

The New York Times –bestselling trilogy: A Pulitzer Prize–winning classic novel of China, together with its two sequels—by the Nobel Prize winner. The Good Earth: With luck and hard work, Chinese peasant farmer Wang Lung and his wife O-lan, a former slave, improve their fortune. They have sons and save steadily until one day they can afford to buy property in the House of Wang—...

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GOD'S MEN

PEARL S. BUCK

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 from the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature 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 Bo...

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THE HIDDEN FLOWER

PEARL S. BUCK

This New York Times –bestselling novel by the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Good Earth is an affecting portrait of interracial love in postwar Japan. Pulitzer Prize-winner Pearl S. Buck's The Hidden Flower centers on the relationship between a Japanese student and an American soldier stationed in postwar Japan. The Japanese student's father worked in the United States as a ...

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IMPERIAL WOMAN

PEARL S. BUCK

From the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Good Earth, the New York Times –bestselling biographical novel of the concubine who became China's last empress. In Imperial Woman, Pulitzer Prize-winner Pearl S. Buck brings to life the amazing story of Tzu Hsi, who rose from concubine status to become the working head of the Qing Dynasty. Born from a humble background, Tzu Hsi falls ...

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LETTER FROM PEKING

PEARL S. BUCK

From the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Good Earth : the New York Times –bestselling novel of a Chinese-American family separated by war. Nobel and Pulitzer Prize–Winning Author 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 ...

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THE PATRIOT

PEARL S. BUCK

A Chinese dissident is torn between love and country in this novel from the New York Times –bestselling author of The Good Earth . When Wu I-wan starts taking an interest in revolution, trouble follows: Winding up in prison, he becomes friends with fellow dissident En-lan. Later, his name is put on a death list and he's shipped off to Japan. Thankfully, his father, a wealthy Sh...

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PORTRAIT OF A MARRIAGE

PEARL S. BUCK

A wealthy painter falls in love with an illiterate Pennsylvania farm girl in this novel from the New York Times –bestselling author of The Good Earth . At the turn of the century, an upper-class painter from Philadelphia goes searching for inspiration. He finds his muse on a farm—the farmer's beautiful and humble daughter. His portrait of her becomes one of his most inspired wo...

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THIS PROUD HEART

PEARL S. BUCK

A sculptor faces tensions between her art and everyday life in this novel by the New York Times –bestselling author of The Good Earth . Nobel and Pulitzer Prize–Winning Author Set in the 1930s, This Proud Heart narrates the experience of a gifted sculptor and her struggle to reconcile her absorbing career with society's domestic expectations as she approaches her second marriag...

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THE TIME IS NOON

PEARL S. BUCK

A woman looks back on her long, rocky path to fulfillment in this revealing novel by the New York Times –bestselling author of The Good Earth . Considered one of the most personal and autobiographical novels by the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize–winning author, The Time Is Noon tells the story of Joan Richards and her journey of self-discovery during the first half of the twentieth c...

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THE CHILD WHO NEVER GREW

PEARL S. BUCK

The classic memoir about raising a special-needs daughter in an era of misinformation and prejudice from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author. It was my child who taught me to understand so clearly that all people are equal in their humanity and that all have the same human rights. Pearl S. Buck is known today for earning a Nobel Prize in Literature and for such New York Times–bes...

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EAST WIND: WEST WIND

PEARL S. BUCK

The classic coming-of-age novel about a young Chinese woman torn between Eastern and Western cultures by the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Good Earth . New York Times –Bestselling and Pulitzer Prize Award-Winning Author Kwei-lan is a traditional Chinese girl—taught by her mother to submit in all things, "as a flower submits to sun and rain alike." Her marriage was arranged ...

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KINFOLK

PEARL S. BUCK

Four Chinese-American siblings make an emotional journey to their ancestral home in this novel from the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize–winning author. 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. U...

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THE LIVING REED

PEARL S. BUCK

An "absorbing and fast-moving" saga of Korea as experienced by one unforgettable family, from the Nobel Prize–winning author ( The New York Times ). "The year was 4214 after Tangun of Korea, and 1881 after Jesus of Judea." So begins Pulitzer Prize–winning author Pearl S. Buck's The Living Reed, an epic historical novel seen through the eyes of four generations of Korean aristoc...

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THE MOTHER

PEARL S. BUCK

From the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Good Earth : The story of a peasant woman in pre-revolutionary China who is abandoned by her husband. " The Mother has an architectural unity and a driving simplicity and strength . . . [and] has almost an elemental quality." — The New York Times Dickensian in its epic sweep, one of Pearl S. Buck's finest novels centers on an unnamed p...

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PEONY

PEARL S. BUCK

A young Chinese woman falls in love with a Jewish man in nineteenth-century China in this evocative novel by the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Good Earth . In 1850s China, a young girl, Peony, is sold to work as a bondmaid for a rich Jewish family in Kaifeng. Jews have lived for centuries in this region of the country, but by the mid-nineteenth century, assimilation has beg...

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THE GOOD EARTH

PEARL S. BUCK

A timeless masterpiece from the New York Times –bestselling author, the Pulitzer Prize–winning story of a farmer's journey through China in the 1920s. The Good Earth is Pearl S. Buck's classic story of Wang Lung, a Chinese peasant farmer, and his wife, O-lan, a former slave. With luck and hard work, the couple's fortunes improve over the years: They are blessed with sons, and s...

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A GIFT FOR THE CHILDREN

PEARL S. BUCK

An illustrated treasury of stories for kids, including two Christmas tales, from the beloved Pulitzer and Nobel Prize–winning author of The Good Earth . This collection of more than twenty stories brings readers back to the timeless fascinations of childhood—thunderstorms and star-filled skies, rabbits and rosebushes—and journeys into the larger world we discover as we grow old...

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MY SEVERAL WORLDS

PEARL S. BUCK

The New York Times –bestselling memoir from the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Often regarded as one of Pulitzer Prize–winning author 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. Born to missionary parents in 1892, Buck spent much of the first portion of...

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DRAGON SEED

PEARL S. BUCK

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 dece...

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PAVILION OF WOMEN

PEARL S. BUCK

A "vivid and extremely interesting" novel of an upper-class Chinese wife's quest for freedom, from the Nobel Prize–winning author ( 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 o...

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THE PROMISE

PEARL S. BUCK

A novel set in World War II Burma about a tragic Chinese–English alliance from the New York Times –bestselling author of Dragon Seed and The Good Earth . Burma is under attack from the Japanese army, and a unit of Chinese soldiers is sent to aid endangered British forces trapped behind enemy lines. China's assistance hinges on a promise: In return, the Allies will supply China ...

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SONS

PEARL S. BUCK

The powerful story of three brothers whose greed will bring their family to the brink of ruin from the New York Times –bestselling author. Nobel and Pulitzer Prize–Winning Author 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. On...

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THE COLLECTED NOVELS VOLUME ONE

PEARL S. BUCK

Three New York Times bestsellers from the author of The Good Earth : These three novels are fascinating portraits of women in China. In 1938, Pearl S. Buck became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in Literature for The Good Earth, which had already earned her the Pulitzer Prize. The daughter of missionaries, the New York Times–bestselling author would continue to explore man...

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OF MEN AND WOMEN

PEARL S. BUCK

A provocative and fascinating exploration of male–female relationships by the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Good Earth . Pearl S. Buck grew up in China, accustomed to its traditions, but when she moved to the United States as an adult in the 1930s she was struck by the cultural differences in gender roles and expectations. In nine short chapters, she applies this personal e...

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THE GODDESS ABIDES

PEARL S. BUCK

A widow's New England peace is interrupted by her feelings for two men, one much younger and the other quite older—and the dilemma of choosing between them. At forty-three, Edith has lost a husband, and has children who have children of their own. Living in a large Vermont house, her days are spent idly reading and playing music. But all of this is to change when two candidates...

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