Автор: Spurling, Hilary Название: Pearl Buck In China ISBN: 1416540431 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781416540434 Издательство: Simon & Schuster Рейтинг: Цена: 1839.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть (1 шт.) Описание: One of the twentieth centurys most extraordinary Americans, Pearl Buck was the first person to make China accessible to the West.
She recreated the lives of ordinary Chinese people in The Good Earth, an overnight worldwide bestseller in 1932, later a blockbuster movie. Buck went on to become the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Long before anyone else, she foresaw Chinas future as a superpower, and she recognized the crucial importance for both countries of Chinas building a relationship with the United States.
As a teenager she had witnessed the first stirrings of Chinese revolution, and as a young woman she narrowly escaped being killed in the deadly struggle between Chinese Nationalists and the newly formed Communist Party.
Pearl grew up in an imperial China unchanged for thousands of years. She was the child of American missionaries, but she spoke Chinese before she learned English, and her friends were the children of Chinese farmers.
She took it for granted that she was Chinese herself until she was eight years old, when the terrorist uprising known as the Boxer Rebellion forced her family to flee for their lives. It was the first of many desperate flights. Flood, famine, drought, bandits, and war formed the background of Pearls life in China.
"Asia was the real, the actual world," she said, "and my own country became the dreamworld."
Pearl wrote about the realities of the only world she knew in The Good Earth. It was one of the last things she did before being finally forced out of China to settle for the first time in the United States. She was unknown and penniless with a failed marriage behind her, a disabled child to support, no prospects, and no way of telling that The Good Earth would sell tens of millions of copies.
It transfixed a whole generation of readers just as Jung Changs Wild Swans would do more than half a century later. No Westerner had ever written anything like this before, and no Chinese had either.
Buck was the forerunner of a wave of Chinese Americans from Maxine Hong Kingston to Amy Tan.
Until their books began coming out in the last few decades, her novels were unique in that they spoke for ordinary Asian people "translating my parents to me," said Hong Kingston, "and giving me our ancestry and our habitation." As a phenomenally successful writer and civil-rights campaigner, Buck did more than anyone else in her lifetime to change Western perceptions of China. In a world with its eyes trained on China today, she has much to tell us about what lies behind its astonishing reawakening.
Автор: Buck Pearl S. Название: The Good Earth ISBN: 1982147172 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781982147174 Издательство: Simon & Schuster Цена: 1954.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The timeless Pulitzer Prizewinning masterpiece following a humble farmer's journey through 1920s China returns with this beautifully repackaged edition that celebrates its nearly ninety years as an American classic.
Travel to 1920s China, a time when the last emperor still ruled and the sweeping changes of the twentieth century were distant rumblings, with this timeless, evocative classic tale of the honest farmer Wang Lung and his family as they struggle to survive in the midst of vast political and social upheavals.
Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize winner Pearl S. Buck traces the whole cycle of life: its terrors, its passions, its ambitions, and rewards.
';A comment upon the meaning and tragedy of life as it is lived in any age in any quarter of the globe' (The New York Times), this brilliant novelbeloved by millionsis a universal tale of an ordinary family caught in the tide of history.
Название: Study Guide to The Good Earth by Pearl Buck ISBN: 1645423700 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781645423706 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1170.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for Pearl Buck`s The Good Earth, the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1932.
Название: Pearl Buck, Part 1 of 4 ISBN: 1288553838 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781288553839 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2448.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Buck Pearl S. Название: The Child Who Never Grew: A Memoir ISBN: 1504047966 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781504047968 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2068.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A "groundbreaking" memoir about raising a special-needs daughter in an era of misinformation and prejudice--a classic that helped transform our perceptions (Publishers Weekly).
It was my child who taught me to understand so clearly that all people are equal in their humanity and that all have the same human rights.
Pearl S. Buck is known today for earning a Nobel Prize in Literature and for such New York Times-bestselling novels as The Good Earth. What many do not know is that she wrote that great work of art with the motivation of paying for a special school for her oldest daughter, Carol, who had a rare developmental disorder.
What was called "mental retardation" at the time--though some used crueler terms--was a disability that could cause great suffering and break a parent's heart. There was little awareness of how to deal with such children, and as a result some were simply hidden away, considered a source of shame and stigma, while others were taken advantage of because of their innocence.
In this remarkable account, which helped bring the issue to light, Pearl S. Buck candidly discusses her own experience as a mother, from her struggle to accept Carol's diagnosis to her determination to give her child as full and happy a life as possible, including a top-quality education designed around her needs and abilities. Both heartrending and inspiring, The Child Who Never Grew provides perspective on just how much progress has been made in recent decades, while also offering common sense and timeless wisdom for the challenges still faced by those who love and care for someone with special needs. It is a clear-eyed and compelling read by a woman renowned for both her literary talent and her humanitarian spirit.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Pearl S. Buck including rare images from the author's estate.
Автор: Buck, Pearl S. Название: The Good Earth ISBN: 1501132768 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501132766 Издательство: Simon & Schuster Рейтинг: Цена: 3103.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Pearl Buck's 1931 Pulitzer Prize-winning classic about the rise and fall of Chinese villagers before World War I comes to life in this evocative graphic novel by New York Times bestselling author Nick Bertozzi. 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 story of the honest farmer Wang Lung and his selfless wife O-Lan is must reading to fully appreciate the sweeping changes that have occurred in the lives of the Chinese people during the last century. Though more than eighty 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 American literature. Now New York Times bestselling author Nick Bertozzi brings Buck's timeless, epic novel to life with incredible imagery in this vivid graphic novel. Through his Eisner Award-winning talents, Bertozzi retraces the whole cycle of life depicted in the unforgettable original: its terrors, its passions, its ambitions, and its rewards. Buck's brilliant novel--beloved by millions of readers--is a universal tale of an ordinary family caught in the tide of history, now accompanied by beautiful, evocative images.
Автор: Buck Pearl Sydenstricker Название: How It Happens: Talk about the German People, 1914-1933 ISBN: 1258483300 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781258483302 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 6244.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Buck Pearl, Pearl Название: Good earth ISBN: 818498331X ISBN-13(EAN): 9788184983319 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3309.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: , Van Dyke Henry, Buck Pearl S. Название: Home for Christmas: Stories for Young and Old ISBN: 0874860318 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780874860313 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 3035.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
If you're giving one book for Christmas, make it this one. --Jim Trelease, author, The Read-Aloud Handbook
They are some of the warmest childhood memories, those unhurried evenings around the fireplace, Christmas tree, or dinner table, when there was time for a story. Now, with this collection, you can keep the story-telling tradition alive in your family, and pass it on to your children or grandchildren.
Home for Christmas includes twenty time-honored tales. Several are by world-famous authors; others are little-known treasures translated from other languages. Selected for their literary quality and spiritual integrity, they will resonate with readers of all ages, year after year.
With original woodcuts by David Klein
Автор: Pearl S. Buck, Buck Название: Fighting angel: portrait of a soul ISBN: 1910736988 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781910736982 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 5148.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Pearl S. Buck`s profoundly touching memoir of her zealous Southern Presbyterian missionary father, Absalom Sydenstricker. He set off for China in 1880 and spent most of the next half century there until his death in 1931. In the poor, hostile interior, he made long preaching trips through lands convulsed by famine, banditry, and revolution.
Автор: Buck, Pearl S. Название: Good Earth ISBN: 147673304X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781476733043 Издательство: Simon & Schuster Цена: 1033.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
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