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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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570 editions
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Pavilion of Women
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1946
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154 editions
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East Wind: West Wind
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1930
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209 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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127 editions
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Sons (House of Earth, #2)
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1932
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122 editions
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The Mother
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1933
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185 editions
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A House Divided (House of Earth, #3)
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1935
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120 editions
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The Big Wave
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1947
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63 editions
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Dragon Seed
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1941
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151 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
February 2016 New School Group Read
1947, The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, 283 pages
1950, The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, 182 pages
1979, The Neverending Story by Michael Ende, 396 pages
1908, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G.K. Chesterton, 198 pages
1954, Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan, 113 pages
1966, The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, 360 pages
1934, Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller, 318 pages
1966, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein, 288 pages
1931, The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, 418 pages
1947, If This Is a Man by Primo Levi, 398 pages
1956, The Black Obelisk by Erich Maria Remarque, 448 pages
1936, South Riding by Winifred Holtby, 492 pages
1962, The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing, 640 pages
1985, Satantango by László Krasznahorkai, 274 pages
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