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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154 editions
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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
August 2016 New School Group Read
1939, And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, 264 pages
1950, Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith, 281 pages
1966, Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, 176 pages
1931, The Waves by Virginia Woolf, 297 pages
1997, American Pastoral by Philip Roth, 432 pages
1980, A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, 416 pages
1963, The Collector by John Fowles, 282 pages
1931, The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, 418 pages
1990, Possession by A.S. Byatt, 555 pages
1996, The Beach by Alex Garland, 436 pages
1948, Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton, 320 pages
1949, The Way West by A.B. Guthrie Jr., 352 pages
1942, The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas, 528 pages
1924, Precious Bane by Mary Webb, 328 pages
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