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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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562 editions
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Pavilion of Women
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1946
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153 editions
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East Wind: West Wind
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1930
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200 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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124 editions
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Sons (House of Earth, #2)
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1932
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120 editions
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The Mother
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1933
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8 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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61 editions
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Christmas Day in the Morning
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1955
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4 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 April Group Read? (Literary Award Winners)
White Teeth by Zadie Smith (Commonwealth Writers Prize)
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson (Costa Book Award)
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
The Giver by Lois Lowry (Newbery Medal)
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Anisfield-Wolf Award)
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton (Man Booker Prize)
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner (Man Booker Prize)
The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder (Newbery Honor)
Small Island by Andrea Levy (Orange Women's Prize for Fiction)
The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood (Stella Prize)
The Sari Shop by Rupa Bajwa (Grinzane Cavour Best Young Author)
The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny (Anthony Award, Agatha Award)
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm (Locus, Hugo, and Jupiter awards)
84 total votes
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