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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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Average rating: 4.02 · 367,825 ratings · 22,027 reviews · 794 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1) by Pearl S. Buck, Stephanie Reents (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Cynthia Brantley Johnson (Editor) 4.01 avg rating — 261,241 ratings — published 1931 — 571 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 — 15,410 ratings — published 1946 — 7 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 — 9,938 ratings — published 1930 — 209 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 — 9,255 ratings — published 1956 — 146 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 — 7,990 ratings — published 1948	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 — 7,566 ratings — published 1932 — 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
	The Mother 4.09 avg rating — 5,276 ratings — published 1933 — 7 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) 3.95 avg rating — 5,326 ratings — published 1935 — 120 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 3.89 avg rating — 4,485 ratings — published 1947 — 63 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 — 3,637 ratings — published 1941 — 151 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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Quotes by Pearl S. Buck (?)

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

tags: contentment

4349 likes

“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

1458 likes

“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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Polls

June 2017 New School Classic Poll

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, 351 pgs, 1905

48 votes, 15.0%

The Color Purple by Alice Walker, 295 pgs, 1982

43 votes, 13.4%

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, 218 pgs, 1996

42 votes, 13.1%

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway, 471 pgs, 1940

24 votes, 7.5%

My Ántonia by Willa Cather, 232 pgs, 1918

22 votes, 6.9%

The Godfather by Mario Puzo, 448, 1969

19 votes, 5.9%

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin, 304 pgs, 1969

16 votes, 5.0%

Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin, 308 pgs, 1967

15 votes, 4.7%

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, 231 pgs, 1939

13 votes, 4.0%

Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence, 654 pgs, 1913

13 votes, 4.0%

Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian, 459 pgs, 1969

12 votes, 3.7%

Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis, 335 pgs, 1946

11 votes, 3.4%

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, 418 pgs, 1931

10 votes, 3.1%

A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute, 359 pgs, 1950

10 votes, 3.1%

The Master of Go by Yasunari Kawabata, 189 pgs, 1954

8 votes, 2.5%

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel, 224 pgs, 1989

7 votes, 2.2%

Titanic by Filson Young, 236 pgs, 1912

5 votes, 1.6%

The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau, 320 pgs, 1964

3 votes, 0.9%

321 total votes

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