Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker was born on June 26, 1892, in Hillsboro, West Virginia. Her parents were Southern Presbyterian missionaries, most often stationed in China, and from childhood, Pearl spoke both English and Chinese. She returned to China shortly after graduation from Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia, in 1914, and the following year, she met a young agricultural economist named John Lossing Buck. They married in 1917, and immediately moved to Nanhsuchou in rural Anhwei province. In this impoverished community, Pearl Buck gathered the material that she would later use in The Good Earth and other stories of China.
Pearl began to publish stories and essays in the 1920s, in magazines such as The Nation, The Chinese Recorder, Asia, and The Atlantic Monthly. Her first novel, East Wind, West Wind, was published by the John Day Company in 1930. John Day's publisher, Richard Walsh, would eventually become Pearl's second husband, in 1935, after both received divorces.
In 1931, John Day published Pearl's second novel, The Good Earth. This became the bestselling book of both 1931 and 1932, won the Pulitzer Prize and the Howells Medal in 1935, and would be adapted as a major MGM film in 1937. Other novels and books of nonfiction quickly followed. In 1938, less than a decade after her first book had appeared, Pearl won the Nobel Prize in literature, the first American woman to do so. By the time of her death in 1973, Pearl had published more than seventy books: novels, collections of stories, biography and autobiography, poetry, drama, children's literature, and translations from the Chinese. She is buried at Green Hills Farm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Pearl S. Buck's epic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a China that was -- now in a Contemporary Classics edition.
Though more than sixty years have passed since this remarkable novel won the Pulitzer Prize, it has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics. "I can only write what I know, and I know nothing but China, having always lived there," wrote Pearl Buck. In The Good Earth she presents a graphic view of a China when the last emperor reigned and the vast political and social upheavals of the twentieth century were but distant rumblings for the ordinary people. This moving, classic story of the honest farmer Wang Lung and his selfless wife O-lan is must reading for those who would fully appreciate the sweeping changes that have occurred in the lives of the Chinese people during this century.
Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck traces the whole cycle of life: its terrors, its passions, its ambitions and rewards. Her brilliant novel -- beloved by millions of readers -- is a universal tale of the destiny of man.
發表於2024-05-11
Good Earth 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
兩年前拿到書隻是看瞭前麵,最近看完瞭整本書,驚訝於作者對於中國農民的到位的描述,不僅是風俗習慣,還有典型農民性格,觀念。阿蘭真是傳統的賢妻良母,王龍納妾讓我很生氣但是細想這也是人性的真是寫照。稍微看瞭一下電影,拍的還比較接近,不過阿蘭不是我想象中的樣子。
評分This book was shared in the Book-crossing Programme in Hongqiao International Library. To know more, please visit http://www.douban.com/people/50946105/ A reader attending the book-crossing praised the novel as “offering great insight into the Chinese ch...
評分proof: http://gos.sbc.edu/b/buck.html (her nobel acceptance speech). Do not call her an American author, that would be an insult.
評分The Grey World ------Review of THE GOOD EARTH Pearl.S.Buck, an American writer ,growing up in China ,can write such a long work about Chinese farmer which indeed astonished me tremendously. she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and tru...
評分兩年前拿到書隻是看瞭前麵,最近看完瞭整本書,驚訝於作者對於中國農民的到位的描述,不僅是風俗習慣,還有典型農民性格,觀念。阿蘭真是傳統的賢妻良母,王龍納妾讓我很生氣但是細想這也是人性的真是寫照。稍微看瞭一下電影,拍的還比較接近,不過阿蘭不是我想象中的樣子。
圖書標籤: 賽珍珠 pearl_s.buck 小說 中國 大地 美國 英語文學 外國文學
…appreciate the simple style which makes vivid images, especially peasant images, for peasants themselves are simple and unadorned.
評分對鄉土中國有很好的認識,可見作者在中國時對周遭體會的透徹
評分人生就是地獄 以上
評分值得紀念
評分the good earth is where a farmer has come and will go.
Good Earth 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載