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A memoir/biography, or creative non-fiction work, about Ms. Buck's mother, Caroline Sydenstricker (1857–1921), describing her life growing up in West Virginia and her life in China as the wife of a Presbyterian missionary. The book is deeply critical of her father and the mission work in China for the church’s treatment of women. Buck then traces the arc of her mother's disillusionment with religion. (The success of the book led Buck to write a parallel memoir of her father, Fighting Angel). Exile while published in 1936, Buck had written a draft in 1920 just after her mother died, and then hid the manuscript in the wall so that her future children might know their grandmother “Carie,”. Her mother went to China in hopes that God would speak to her if she made the sacrifice of becoming a missionary. But soon found she had simply exiled herself from her American home and family. When the deaths of three of her children in China made her sacrifice seem meaningless, she then exiled herself from the traditional patriarchal God of her parents, and eventually from her husband. In Buck's description, Carie built a succession of homes for her children and bestowed charity on neighbors and strangers even as she dispensed inflexible moral judgment on her family. “Carie’s daughter,” as Pearl called herself, determined to never make her mother’s mistake of subordinating herself to either a man or to a zealous creed.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket; signed by author. Slipcase also present. See scans and description. New York: The John Day Company, 1939. First Edition, signed by the author, uninscribed, on the ffep. Thin octavo, 59 pp. Black cloth binding with gilt imprinting, black and gold jacket. Fine book in Near Fine jacket showing only light peripheral wear. Unclipped, still bearing the $ 1.50 1939 price. The very scarce slipcase is also present, albeit with detached spine; slipcase otherwise quite perfect. See all scans. One of Buck's scarcest. The Chinese Novel is Buck's Nobel Lecture delivered at the Swedish Academy upon winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. Buck, the first of just two American women to win the prize, points out the distinct nature of the Chinese novel, the quintessential grass-roots form which comes from and lives within the Chinese common people whose tea house and farming villages are the roots of the stories contained therein. She also predicted - correctly - that her own adherence to this form would cause her to fall out of the critical limelight, in time. With the slipcase, hard to replace. Provenance provided to purchaser. L12n
A provocative and fascinating exploration of male-female relationships by the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Good Earth . Pearl S. Buck grew up in China, accustomed to its traditions, but when she moved to the United States as an adult in the 1930s she was struck by the cultural differences in gender roles and expectations. In nine short chapters, she applies this personal experience to an exploration of the power dynamics of the American household, drawing one universal "Complete freedom is the atmosphere in which men and women can live together most happily. But it must be complete." As she makes her case, Buck outlines two American female the dissatisfied "gunpowder woman" and the placid "angel." "Sensible and witty, merciless and often amusing," this is a book that ultimately delivers a clarion call for men and women to find common ground and succeed hand in hand ( The New York Times Book Review ). The first American female Nobel laureate, Buck was a pioneer women's rights activist and humanitarian who believed both sexes could find happiness together, even in challenging economic or political circumstances. Imbued with an unshakeable faith in equality and strident candor, Of Men and Women remains a daringly original and candid work in the canon of feminist literature. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Pearl S. Buck including rare images from the author's estate.
Contributing Authors Include Arthur Garfield Hays, Chu Hsueh Fan, Krishnalal Shridharani, And Many Others.
An account of the sorrow and the spiritual rewards the author experienced as the mother of a retarded child
The People of Japan [hardcover] Pearl S. Buck [Jan 01, 1966]
Hardcover book with essays on each state and 200 photographs by Life Magazine photographers.
xii + 305 pp. Numbered, limited, edition. "Jacket designed by the Etheredges"
Hardcover book, published in 1972 by John Day Co. 177 pages, illustrated with black and white photographs from Magnum by Henri Cartier-Bresson and others. Includes bibliographical references. Limited Edition.
Additional Authors Include W. J. Millor, Victor Reuther, Ray Lyman Wilbur And Others.
