Pearl Buck Best Novels - April 2024

The Angry Wife: A Novel

A novel of a Southern woman trapped in the past and two brothers divided by the Civil War, from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Good Earth.  Lucinda Delaney is a southern belle ruled by a vision of life that no longer exists. The Civil War has come and gone and her side has lost, yet she is determined to proceed as if nothing has changed—a denial that stokes the flames of her irrational angers. Despite her returned husband’s devotion, Lucinda is sure he is having an affair with one of their slaves. After all, his Union-sympathizing brother, Tom, did just that, scandalously ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00CLVB9NI
• ASIN: B00CLVB9NI
• Manufacturer: Open Road Media

Imperial Woman: The Story of the Last Empress of China (Oriental Novels of Pearl S. Buck)

Imperial Woman is the fictionalized biography of the last Empress in China, Ci-xi, who began as a concubine of the Xianfeng Emperor and on his death became the de facto head of the Qing Dynasty until her death in 1908.Buck recreates the life of one of the most intriguing rulers during a time of intense turbulence.Tzu Hsi was born into one of the lowly ranks of the Imperial dynasty. According to custom, she moved to the Forbidden City at the age of seventeen to become one of hundreds of concubines. But her singular beauty and powers of manipulation quickly moved her into the position of Second ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1559210354
• ASIN: 1559210354
• ISBN: 1559210354
• Brand: Brand: Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries
• Manufacturer: Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries

Dragon Seed: A Novel of China at War (Oriental Novels of Pearl S. Buck)

A New York Times–bestselling historical novel about the Japanese invasion of Nanking from the author of The Good Earth. Farmer Liang Tan knows only a quiet, traditional life in his remote Chinese farming community. When news filters in that Japanese forces are invading the country, he and his fellow villagers believe that if they behave decently to the Japanese soldiers, the civilians might remain undisturbed. They’re in for a shock, as the attackers lay waste to the country and install a puppet government designed to systematically carry out Japanese interests. In response, the Chinese ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B008F4NQXG
• ASIN: B008F4NQXG
• Manufacturer: Open Road Media

A House Divided (Oriental Novels of Pearl S. Buck)

A House Divided, the third volume of the trilogy that began with The Good Earth and Sons, is a powerful portrayal of China in the midst of revolution. Wang Yuan is caught between the opposing ideas of different generations. After 6 years abroad, Yuan returns to China in the middle of a peasant uprising. His cousin is a captain in the revolutionary army, his sister has scandalized the family by her premarital pregnancy, and his warlord father continues to cling to his traditional ideals. It is through Yuan's efforts that a kind of peace is restored to the family.

• ASIN: 1559210346
• ASIN: 1559210346
• ISBN: 1559210346
• Manufacturer: Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries

Kinfolk: A Novel of China (Oriental Novels of Pearl S. Buck)

Four Chinese-American siblings make an emotional journey to their ancestral home in this novel from the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Good Earth.  Dr. Liang is a comfortably well-off professor of Confucian philosophy who fled China because of the government’s crackdown on intellectuals. Now, settled in 1940s New York, he believes in the notion of a pure and unchanging homeland. Under his influence, Liang’s four grown children make the momentous decision to move to China, despite having spent their whole lives in the United States. But as the siblings try in various way... [Read More]

• ASIN: B008F4NQRW
• ASIN: B008F4NQRW
• Manufacturer: Open Road Media

The Hidden Flower: A Novel

This New York Times–bestselling novel by the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Good Earth is an affecting portrait of interracial love in postwar Japan. Pearl S. Buck’s The Hidden Flower centers on the relationship between a Japanese student and an American soldier stationed in postwar Japan. The Japanese student’s father worked in the United States as a doctor, but had to flee to Kyoto to avoid imprisonment in an internment camp. The American soldier has inherited his family’s estate in Virginia, where interracial marriage is forbidden. Against such forces, and without the help of t... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00CLVB9EM
• ASIN: B00CLVB9EM
• Manufacturer: Open Road Media

The Good Earth (Oprah's Book Club)

Nobel Laureate Pearl S. Buck’s epic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and Oprah Book Club selection about a vanished China and one family’s shifting fortunes.Though more than seventy years have passed since this remarkable novel won the Pulitzer Prize, it has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics. In The Good Earth Pearl S. Buck paints an indelible portrait of China in the 1920s, when the last emperor reigned and the vast political and social upheavals of the twentieth century were but distant rumblings. This moving, classic story of the honest farmer Wang Lung and... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0743272935
• ASIN: 0743272935
• ISBN: 0743272935
• Brand: Washington Square Press
• Manufacturer: Washington Square Press

Come, My Beloved: A Novel

The New York Times–bestselling, multigenerational family saga that reaches from America to India by the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Good Earth.  Beginning in the 1890s, Come, My Beloved describes an American family’s involvement with India over four generations. Touched by the poverty he encounters in Bombay, self-made millionaire David MacArd establishes a seminary for Christian missionary workers, and in so doing shapes the fates of his son and grandson. The choices made by each generation parallel one another, distinctly marked by the passage of time—though the patriarch rem... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00CLVB9A6
• ASIN: B00CLVB9A6
• Manufacturer: Open Road Media

Dragon Seed (Oriental Novels of Pearl S. Buck)

The story of Tzu Hsi is the story of the last empress in China. In the novel, Nobel Prize Winner, Pearl S. Buck recreates the life of one of the most interesting rulers during a time of intense turbulence. Pearl S. Buck's knowledge of and fascination with the Empresses' life are contagious. She reveals the essence of this self-involved and infamous last empress, at the same time she takes the reader through China's struggle for freedom and democracy.

• ASIN: 1559210338
• ASIN: 1559210338
• ISBN: 9781559210331
• Brand: Buck, Pearl S.
• Manufacturer: Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries

The Promise: A Novel of China and Burma

A novel set in WWII Burma about a tragic Chinese–English alliance from the New York Times–bestselling author of Dragon Seed and The Good Earth. Burma is under attack from the Japanese army, and a unit of Chinese soldiers is sent to aid endangered British forces trapped behind enemy lines. China’s assistance hinges on a promise: In return, the Allies will supply China with airplanes and military equipment, much needed to protect their own civilian population. But the troops—including a young commander named Lao San, whom Buck fans will remember from Dragon Seed—are met with ingratitud... [Read More]

• ASIN: B008F4NR1C
• ASIN: B008F4NR1C
• Manufacturer: Open Road Media

Pavilion of Women: A Novel of Life in the Women's Quarters

A “vivid and extremely interesting” novel of an upper-class Chinese wife’s quest for freedom, from the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Good Earth (The New Yorker).  At forty, Madame Wu is beautiful and much respected as the wife of one of China’s oldest upper-class houses. Her birthday wish is to find a young concubine for her husband and to move to separate quarters, starting a new chapter of her life. When her wish is granted, she finds herself at leisure, no longer consumed by running a sixty-person household. Now she’s free to read books previously forbidden her, to learn En... [Read More]

• ASIN: B008F4NRT4
• ASIN: B008F4NRT4
• Manufacturer: Open Road Media

Pearl of China: A Novel

In the small southern China town of Chin-kiang, in the last days of the nineteenth century, two young girls bump heads and become thick as thieves. Willow is the only child of a destitute family. Pearl is the headstrong daughter of Christian missionaries-and will grow up to become Pearl S. Buck, Nobel Prize-winning writer and activist. This unlikely pair becomes lifelong friends, confiding their beliefs and dreams, experiencing love and motherhood, and eventually facing civil war and exile. Pearl of China brings new color to the remarkable life of Pearl S. Buck, illuminated by the sweep of his... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1608193128
• ASIN: 1608193128
• ISBN: 1608193128
• Manufacturer: Bloomsbury USA

The Goddess Abides: A Novel

A widow’s New England peace is interrupted by her feelings for two brilliant men, one much younger and the other quite older—and the dilemma of choosing between themAt forty-three, Edith has lost a husband, and has children who have children of their own. Living in a large Vermont house, her days are spent idly reading and playing music. But all of this is to change when two candidates for her affection arrive on the scene. The first is thirty years her senior, a philosopher named Edwin with whom she enjoys an enriching intellectual friendship. The second, Jared, is twenty years her junior... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00CLVB9AQ
• ASIN: B00CLVB9AQ
• Manufacturer: Open Road Media

The Mother: A Novel

From the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Good Earth: The “moving story” of a peasant woman in pre-revolutionary China who is abandoned by her husband (Kirkus Reviews).  Dickensian in its epic sweep, one of Buck’s finest novels centers on an unnamed peasant woman in pre-revolutionary China. Without warning, her restless husband abandons her. Shamed by the experience, she is left to work the land, raise their three children on her own, and care for her aging mother-in-law. To save face with her neighbors, she pretends her husband is traveling, and sends letters to herself signed in hi... [Read More]

• ASIN: B008F4NQKY
• ASIN: B008F4NQKY
• Manufacturer: Open Road Media

The Living Reed: A Novel of Korea

An “absorbing and fast-moving” saga of Korea as experienced by one unforgettable family, from the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Good Earth (The New York Times).  “The year was 4214 after Tangun of Korea, and 1881 after Jesus of Judea.” So begins Pearl S. Buck’s The Living Reed, an epic historical novel seen through the eyes of four generations of Korean aristocracy.   As the chronicle begins, the Kims are living comfortably as advisors to the Korean royal family. But that world is torn apart with the Japanese invasion, when the queen is killed and the Kims are thrust into hid... [Read More]

• ASIN: B008F4NU9G
• ASIN: B008F4NU9G
• Manufacturer: Open Road Media

The Good Earth

A Chinese peasant overcomes the forces of nature and the frailties of human nature to become a wealthy

• UPC: 3266127
• Rating: 4.216

The Eternal Wonder

Tells the coming-of-age story of Randolph Colfax (Rann for short), an extraordinarily gifted young man whose search for meaning and purpose leads him to New York, England, Paris, a mission patrolling the DMZ in Korea

• UPC: 25099533
• Rating: 2.667

Peony: A Novel of China - eBook

The Nobel Prize–winning author’s perceptive fable of cross-cultural passions in nineteenth-century ChinaIn 1850s China, a young girl, Peony, is sold to work as a bondmaid for a rich Jewish family in Kaifeng. Jews have lived

• UPC: 289425322
• Rating: 4.0

The Promise: A Novel of China and Burma - eBook

A compelling historical novel about the tragic alliance between Chinese and English forces in Burma during World War IIBurma is under attack from the Japanese army, and a unit of Chinese soldiers is sent to

• UPC: 568780840
• Rating: 4.118

The Mother: A Novel - eBook

“Buck has never done better work than this. By a great gift of intuition she has entered into the mind, heart and spirit of the Chinese peasant woman and revealed the permanent values of life.”

• UPC: 505745018
• Rating: 4.0

Kinfolk: A Novel of China - eBook

A tale of four Chinese-American siblings in New York, and their bewildering return to their rootsIn Kinfolk, a sharp dissection of the expatriate experience, Pearl S. Buck unfurls the story of a Chinese family living

• UPC: 800284570
• Rating: 4.0

Pavilion of Women: A Novel of Life in the Women's Quarters - eBook

The exhilarating novel of an elegant woman’s subversive new chapter in lifeAt forty, Madame Wu is beautiful and much respected as the wife of one of China’s oldest upper-class houses. Her birthday wish is to

• UPC: 121342054
• Rating: 4.167

The Mother: A Novel - eBook

Within this novel Ms. Buck paints the portrait of a poor woman living in a remote village whose joys are few and hardships are many. As the ancient traditions, which she bases her philosophies upon,

• UPC: 157380879

The Good Earth (Audiobook)

Begun on simple farmer Wang Lung's wedding day, the story follows his simple, sometimes naive, and often one sided view of the Chinese culture, times, and his connection with the

• UPC: 5930465
• Rating: 4.267

The Essential Writer's Guide: Spotlight on Pearl S. Buck, Including Her Education, Analysis of Her Best Sellers Such as the Exile, Fighting Angel, A Paperback

The Essential Writer's Guide: Spotlight on Pearl S. Buck, Including Her Education, Analysis of Her Best Sellers Such as the Exile, Fighting Angel, A Height : 0.40 In Length : 9.69 In Width : 7.44

• UPC: 159563608

Reader's Digest The World's Best Reading: The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, 1991

• UPC: 283447150690
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 9 USD