Summary: Morning glory: A small-town community-theatre actress comes to New York dreaming of theatrical stardom. She amuses a producer and a playwright with her naiviete. Partly out of sympathy, the playwright arranges for her to understudy a troublesome theatrical star. When the star walks out on opening night, the young actress goes on to triumphant success. She is warned not to let it go to her...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007

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Buck, Pearl S

Summary: A slave bride of a Chinese laborer devotes herself to her husband's family, but when civil war in China brings wealth to the family, her happiness is endangered as her husband brings home a second wife. "This Pulitzer Prize-winning classic tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China. The humble Wang Lung glories in the soil he works, nurturing the land as...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audiobooks 2007

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Buck, Pearl S

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Moyer Bell 1994

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Summary: A young farmer named Wang Lung marries a selfless, loyal slave girl, O-Lan. Wang is initially devoted to the land and rises to prosperity. Later, however, Wang deserts the land and takes a second wife and tragedy threatens to overwhelm him. Eventually Wang realizes that the land and O-Lan mean more to him than his wealth.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2006

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Buck, Pearl S

Summary: The author's account of her struggle to help and understand her mentally retarded daughter.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Woodbine House 1992

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Buck, Pearl S

Summary: His family and village swept away by a tidal wave, Jiya learns to live with the ever-present dangers from the sea and volcano.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 1992

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Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker)

Summary: Restaurant owner Madam Liang, having sent her three daughters to America to be educated and to escape the coming Communist revolution in China, refuses herself to flee to safety even though her decision could end her life.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Moyer Bell 1991

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Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker)

Summary: An American diplomat's career in China.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: John Day Co. 1973

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Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker)

Summary: 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 2004

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Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker)

Summary: A recently discovered novel follows the gifted Randolph Colfax from birth to his early twenties as he searches for purpose and meaning in New York, England, Paris, and on his mission patrolling the DMZ in Korea.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ingram Pub Services 2013

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Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker)

Summary: Wang Lang, a simple peasant farmer, takes as a wife a battered slave girl who becomes an indomitable, loyal woman. Working the land together, they prosper and increase their holdings, yet Wang eventually betrays his family and neglects the earth he had worshipped.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 1958

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Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: J. Day Co. 1956

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Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Moyer Bell 1995

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Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The John Day company 1946

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Min, Anchee

Summary: Arriving in late 19th-century China with her missionary parents, Pearl Buck is soon fascinated by her new home and strikes up a friendship with a young Chinese girl named Willow. The two become inseparable even as civil war, failed relationships, and world conflicts threaten all they hold dear.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010

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