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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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209 editions
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Pavilion of Women
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1946
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East Wind: West Wind
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1930
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17 editions
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Imperial Woman
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1956
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146 editions
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Peony
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1948
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52 editions
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Sons (House of Earth, #2)
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1932
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122 editions
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The Mother
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1933
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185 editions
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A House Divided (House of Earth, #3)
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1935
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121 editions
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The Big Wave
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1947
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64 editions
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Dragon Seed
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1941
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151 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
October 2015 New School Classics Group Read
1934, Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers, 209 pages
1982, Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally, 429 pages
1981, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, 647 pages
1931, The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, 418 pages
1997, The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, 340 pages
1914, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, 329 pages
1958, Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene, 220 pages
1997, American Pastoral by Philip Roth, 432 pages
1971, Maurice by E.M. Forster, 256 pages
1939, Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo, 243 pages
1997, Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier, 449 pages
1976, Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley, 729 pages
1972, Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, 165 pages
1957, The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino, 217 pages
1943, The Makioka Sisters by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, 530 pages
1963, Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar, 564 pages
1905, The Petty Demon by Fyodor Sologub, 352 pages
1997, Out by Natsuo Kirino, 400 pages
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