Pearl S. Buck

Este livro retrata a vida na China numa epoca em que profundas mudancas economicas e sociais transformaram um pais agrario em uma potencia emergente. Com infinita dedicacao, trabalho e perseveranca, o chines Wang Lung passa de humilde campones a grande proprietario. Para ele, as terras que possui sao mais sagradas do …

On her fortieth birthday, Madame Wu carries out a decision she has been planning for a long time: she tells her husband that after twenty-four years their physical life together is now over and she wishes him to take a second wife. The House of Wu, one of the oldest and most revered in China, is thrown into an uproar …

Imperial Woman is a novel by Pearl S. Buck first published in 1956. Imperial Woman is a fictionalized biography of Ci-xi, who was a concubine of the Xianfeng Emperor and on his death became the de facto head of the Qing dynasty until her death in 1908. The story of Tzu Hsi is the story of the last Empress in China. In …

The story of Tzu Hsi is the story of the last empress in China. In the novel, Nobel Prize Winner, Pearl S. Buck recreates the life of one of the most interesting rulers during a time of intense turbulence. Pearl S. Buck's knowledge of and fascination with the Empresses' life are contagious. She reveals the essence …

A jovem Peony é vendida como escrava a uma rica família chinesa - um papel estranho em que é suposto ser mais do que uma criada, mas menos do que uma filha. À medida que cresce, Peony desabrocha numa linda e provocadora jovem mulher, que se apaixona pelo único filho da família. Todavia, a tradição proíbe-os de casar. …

East Wind: West Wind foi o primeiro livro da escritora estadunidense Pearl S. Buck, destacando-se por expor inicialmente aquela que seria a principal característica da obra da escritora: a preocupação com a civilização chinesa, a compreensão de uma cultura tradicional e seus conflitos mediante o mundo ocidental. …

Second in the trilogy that began with The Good Earth, Buck's classic and starkly real tale of sons rising against their honored fathers tells of the bitter struggle to the death between the old and the new in China. Revolutions sweep the vast nation, leaving destruction and death in their wake, yet also promising …

A House Divided is the sequel to the 1932 novel Sons, and the third book in The House of Earth trilogy, all written by Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck. It centers on the third generation of Wang Lung's family, focusing particularly on his grandson Wang Yuan.