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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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575 editions
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Pavilion of Women
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1946
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154 editions
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East Wind: West Wind
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1930
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5 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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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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74 editions
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A House Divided (House of Earth, #3)
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1935
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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
What should be our February 'Read Around the World' Group Read? (Asia)
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (India)
Last Train to Istanbul by Ayşe Kulin (Turkey)
The Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon (Japan)
A House Without Windows by Nadia Hashimi (Afghanistan)
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien (China)
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See (China)
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang (China)
Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon (Thailand [Siam])
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (China)
I'll Be Right There by Kyung-Sook Shin (South Korea)
House of Cards by Sudha Murty (India)
Sunlight on a Broken Column by Attia Hosain (India)
Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai (India)
67 total votes
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