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Pearl S. Buck

Born

in Hillsboro, West Virginia, The United States

June 26, 1892

Died

March 06, 1973

Website

https://pearlsbuck.org/

Genre

Fiction, Biography, Children's

Influences

Asian folklore, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Walter Scott ...more

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Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck was an American writer and novelist. She is best known for The Good Earth, the best-selling novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and which won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, Buck became the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China" and for her "masterpieces", two memoir-biographies of her missionary parents.
Buck was born in West Virginia, but in October 1892, her parents took their 4-month-old baby to China. As the daughter of missionaries and later as a missionary herself, Buck spent most of her life before 1934 in Zhenjiang, with her parents, and in Nanjing, with her first husband. She and her parents spent ...more

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	The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1) by Pearl S. Buck, Stephanie Reents (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Cynthia Brantley Johnson (Editor) 4.01 avg rating — 258,945 ratings — published 1931 — 580 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pavilion of Women 4.15 avg rating — 15,245 ratings — published 1946 — 154 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	East Wind: West Wind 4.06 avg rating — 9,652 ratings — published 1930 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Imperial Woman 4.09 avg rating — 9,143 ratings — published 1956 — 147 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Peony 4.04 avg rating — 7,892 ratings — published 1948 — 132 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sons (House of Earth, #2) 3.86 avg rating — 7,407 ratings — published 1932 — 121 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mother 4.09 avg rating — 5,158 ratings — published 1933 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A House Divided (House of Earth, #3) 3.94 avg rating — 5,228 ratings — published 1935 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Big Wave 3.88 avg rating — 4,387 ratings — published 1947 — 64 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dragon Seed 4.11 avg rating — 3,558 ratings — published 1941 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
― Pearl S. Buck

tags: contentment

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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.”
― Pearl S. Buck

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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.”
― Pearl S. Buck

tags: creativity, genius, poem-in-your-pocket-day

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A Chaparral Christmas Gift by O. Henry

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The Christmas Present by Richmal Crompton

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The Romance of the Christmas Card by Kate Douglas Wiggin

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Christmas Day in the Morning Pearl S. Buck

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A Christmas Eve Suit by E. P. Roe

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