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Pearl S. Buck
Born
in Hillsboro, West Virginia, The United States
June 26, 1892
Died
March 06, 1973
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Influences
Asian folklore, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Walter Scott
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The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
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1931
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602 editions
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Pavilion of Women
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1946
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2 editions
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East Wind: West Wind
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1930
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213 editions
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Imperial Woman
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1956
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62 editions
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Peony
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1948
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2 editions
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Sons (House of Earth, #2)
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1932
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The Mother
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1933
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5 editions
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A House Divided (House of Earth, #3)
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1935
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120 editions
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The Big Wave
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1947
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31 editions
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Dragon Seed
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1941
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67 editions
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“You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.”
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“The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create -- so that
without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.”
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without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.”
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Polls
March 2016 New School Group Read
1950, The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, 182 pages
1987, Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami, 296 pages
1965, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, 343 pages
1972, Watership Down by Richard Adams, 481 pages
1955, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, 307 pages
1966, The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, 360 pages
1963, Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, 179 pages
1928, Orlando by Virginia Woolf, 228 pages
1987, Beloved by Toni Morrison, 324 pages
1927, Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather, 297 pages
1940, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers, 368 pages
1931, The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, 418 pages
1919, Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson, 240 pages
1958, The Tin Drum by Günter Grass, 567 pages
1920, Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset, 1168 pages
1937, Christ in Concrete by Pietro Di Donato, 256 pages
1956, The Black Obelisk by Erich Maria Remarque, 448 pages
1949, The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles, 342 pages
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