- Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973, Fiction, Married people, Fiction, general
Pearl S. Buck ha sabido describir en sus libros el punto justo en que se encuentran las civilizaciones oriental y occidental. Al trazarnos el retrato de una familia distinguida, nos muestra los conflictos que, de manera inevitable, surgen entre padres e hijos cuando las ideas occidentales penetran en los baluartes de la cultura china.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and intimate.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Pearl S. Buck
- First published
- 1948
- Pages
- 251
- Publisher
- Heyne Verlag, P. Zsolnay Verlag, Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
- Editions
- 34
- Language
- Chinese, German, French, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9781453263464
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Pearl S. Buck had always lived in China except for the time she spent in the United States when she was being educated. She studied at Randolph-Macon College and at Cornell University. She taught at the University of Nanking and at the Government University in Nanking under two national regimes. She lived in Nanking during the 1930's. *The Good Earth* was Mrs. Buck's second published novel. *East Wind: West Wind* appeared under the John Day imprint in 1930. She contributed articles and stories to various magazines, among them *The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation*, and *Asia*.
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