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Pavilion of Women

Author : Pearl S. Buck
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453263500
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Pavilion of Women written by Pearl S. Buck and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “vivid and extremely interesting” novel of an upper-class Chinese wife’s quest for freedom, from the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Good Earth (The New Yorker). At forty, Madame Wu is beautiful and much respected as the wife of one of China’s oldest upper-class houses. Her birthday wish is to find a young concubine for her husband and to move to separate quarters, starting a new chapter of her life. When her wish is granted, she finds herself at leisure, no longer consumed by running a sixty-person household. Now she’s free to read books previously forbidden her, to learn English, and to discover her own mind. The family in the compound are shocked at the results, especially when she begins learning from a progressive, excommunicated Catholic priest. In its depiction of life in the compound, Pavilion of Women includes some of Buck’s most enchanting writing about the seasons, daily rhythms, and customs of women in China. It is a delightful parable about the sexes, and of the profound and transformative effects of free thought. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Pearl S. Buck including rare images from the author’s estate.

Peony in Love

Author : Lisa See
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408811790
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Peony in Love written by Lisa See and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-05-04 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peony has neither seen nor spoken to any man other than her father, a wealthy Chinese nobleman. Nor has she ever ventured outside the cloistered women's quarters of the family villa. As her sixteenth birthday approaches she finds herself betrothed to a man she does not know, but Peony has dreams of her own. Her father engages a theatrical troupe to perform scenes from The Peony Pavilion, a Chinese epic opera, in their garden amidst the scent of ginger, green tea and jasmine. 'Unmarried girls should not be seen in public,' says Peony's mother, but her father allows the women to watch from behind a screen. Here, Peony catches sight of an elegant, handsome man and is immediately bewitched. So begins her unforgettable journey of love, desire, sorrow and redemption.

The Pavilion in the Clouds

Author : Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0593469097
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book The Pavilion in the Clouds written by Alexander McCall Smith and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is one of the most enjoyable of his many enjoyable novels” –The Scotsman It is 1938 and the final days of the British Empire. In a bungalow high up in the green hills above the plains of Ceylon, under a vast blue sky, live the Ferguson family: Bella, a precocious eight-year-old; her father, Henry, owner of a tea plantation; and her mother, Virginia, a woman out of step in her community. The story centers around their home, affectionately called “The Pavilion in the Clouds,” set in the idyllic grounds carved out of the wilderness. But all is not as serene as it seems. Bella is suspicious of the intentions of her governess, Miss White. Her suspicion ignites her mother’s imagination, causing an unfortunate series of eventsthat reverberate throughout the years.

This Proud Heart

Author : Pearl S. Buck
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480421111
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book This Proud Heart written by Pearl S. Buck and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1930s, as her second marriage approaches, a brilliant and independent sculptor faces tensions between her art and everyday life in this novel by the author of The Good Earth. This Proud Heart narrates the experience of a gifted sculptor and her struggle to reconcile her absorbing career with society’s domestic expectations. Susan Gaylord is talented, loving, equipped with a strong moral sense, and adept at anything she puts her hand to, from housework to playing the piano to working with marble and clay. But the intensity of her artistic calling comes at a price, isolating her from other people—at times, even from her own family. When her husband dies and she remarries, she finds herself once again comparing the sacrifice of solitude to that of commitment. With a heroine who is naturalistic yet compellingly larger than life, This Proud Heart is incomparable in its sympathetic study of character. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Pearl S. Buck including rare images from the author’s estate.

Pearl S. Buck's Chinese Women Characters

Author : Xiongya Gao
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781575910253
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Pearl S. Buck's Chinese Women Characters written by Xiongya Gao and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a result, the reader will find that Buck's female characters, with their different degrees of individuality and typicality, form a realistic picture of Chinese women."--BOOK JACKET.

Peach Blossom Pavilion

Author : Mingmei Yip
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007570139
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Peach Blossom Pavilion written by Mingmei Yip and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Torn from her family. Destined to become the most desired courtesan in China. A seductive and evocative debut that opens the doors on life as a Chinese courtesan in the Peach Blossom Pavilion...

A Pearl Buck Reader

Author : Reader's Digest Editors
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780895771964
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (719 download)

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Download or read book A Pearl Buck Reader written by Reader's Digest Editors and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

East Wind, West Wind

Author : Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781559210867
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book East Wind, West Wind written by Pearl Sydenstricker Buck and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pearl Buck tells the heart-seaching and tender story of a young Chinese girl's troubled acceptance of an alien way of life, with all its sorrows and rewards.

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

Author : Yukio Mishima
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0099285673
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book The Temple of the Golden Pavilion written by Yukio Mishima and published by Random House. This book was released on 2001 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together Mishima's preoccupations with violence, desire, religious life and the history of Japan, this novel is based on an actual incident, the burning of a celebrated temple. The novel is a meditation on the state of Japan in the post-war period.

Good Earth

Author : Pearl S. Buck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780743268721
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (687 download)

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Download or read book Good Earth written by Pearl S. Buck and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a Chinese peasant and his passionate, dogged accumulation of land during famine, drought, and revolution.

Peony

Author : Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780671788063
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Peony written by Pearl Sydenstricker Buck and published by . This book was released on 1975-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of Chinese and Jewish coinflicts.

Pavilion of Women

Author : Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Publisher : Mount Kisco, N.Y. : Moyer Bell Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781559210232
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Pavilion of Women written by Pearl Sydenstricker Buck and published by Mount Kisco, N.Y. : Moyer Bell Limited. This book was released on 1946 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

PAVILLION OF WOMEN

Author : PEARL S. BUCK
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book PAVILLION OF WOMEN written by PEARL S. BUCK and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pavilion of Women

Author : Pearl S. Buck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780671753610
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (536 download)

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Download or read book Pavilion of Women written by Pearl S. Buck and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 by her decision, but Madame Wu will not be dissuaded and arranges for a young country girl to come take her place in bed. Elegant and detached, Madame Wu orchestrates this change as she manages everything in the extended household of more than sixty relatives and servants. Alone in her own quarters, she relishes her freedom and reads books she has never been allowed to touch. When her son begins English lessons, she listens, and is soon learning from the foreigner, a free-thinking priest named Brother Andre, who will change her life. Few books raise so many questions about the nature and roles of men and women, about self-discipline and happiness.

The Collected Novels Volume One

Author : Pearl S. Buck
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504052110
Total Pages : 1604 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Collected Novels Volume One written by Pearl S. Buck and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 1604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Good Earth: These three novels are fascinating portraits of women in China. In 1938, Pearl S. Buck became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in Literature for The Good Earth, which had already earned her the Pulitzer Prize. Upon choosing Buck’s novel for her book club in 2004, Oprah Winfrey said: “Reading Pearl Buck’s writing feels like reading poetry to me. I just love the quiet rhythm of the words. They evoke the simple beauty of the characters and the harsh mystery of China’s ancient culture.” The daughter of missionaries, the New York Times–bestselling author would continue to explore many aspect of Chinese culture in her work, and the three novels collected in this volume represent some of her most compassionate and revealing fiction. Pavilion of Women: This “vivid and extremely interesting novel,” set in early twentieth-century China, follows an upper-class wife’s quest for personal freedom (The New Yorker). After Madame Wu turns forty, she encourages her husband to take a young concubine so she can finally begin to discover her own mind—and a new world opens up before her as she reads forbidden books and studies English with a progressive former priest. “Beautifully written . . . A fine, full flavorsome novel.” —Newsweek Peony: A young Chinese bondmaid in nineteenth-century China falls in love with the son of the wealthy Jewish family she works for. As the couple’s traditions collide, their relationship faces opposition from every side. “Peony has the vividness of scene and episode and character and the colorful detail that [Buck’s] readers have come to expect of her novels in China.” —New York Herald Tribune Imperial Woman: In this “richly woven . . . quite absorbing” New York Times bestseller, Buck brings to life the story of Tzu Hsi, the magnetic and fierce-minded woman who rose from concubine to become the working head of the Qing Dynasty and the last empress of China for nearly half a century (The Nation). “Certainly, no fictioneer could imagine a more incredible woman. . . . Pearl Buck has done a remarkable and painstaking job in recreating her.” —Saturday Review

An Inconvenient Woman - The Character of Madame Wu from 'Pavilion of Women' by Pearl S. Buck

Author : Sabine Buchholz
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638906264
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book An Inconvenient Woman - The Character of Madame Wu from 'Pavilion of Women' by Pearl S. Buck written by Sabine Buchholz and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Siegen (FB 3: Literatur-, Sprach- und Medienwissenschaften), course: Nobel Prize Winners in English: Instantly Canonized?, 10 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In 1946, Pearl S. Buck, winner of the Nobel Prize in 1938, published Pavilion of Women, a novel about a Chinese woman who withdraws from married life by ordering a concubine for her husband. The inspiring work deals with Chinese traditions in particular as well as with general questions of individual freedom and existence, possession, love, religion, (female) psychology, gender issues and human interrelations. Although critics tend to complain especially about the story's sentimentalism, there are, however, many colourful descriptions of Chinese habits and customs, which may not only teach Western readers a great deal about the exotic culture but also about divergent philosophical and psychological issues. This essay is, above all, to concentrate on the extraordinary female protagonist, Madame Wu, the matron of an influential aristocratic Chinese family. At this, focuses on questions like the following: How is the specific woman presented with regard to her (outer) physical appearance and body features, but also concerning her (inner) characteristic attributes, in other words, her mind? In what way are symbols employed to undermine her characteristics? And, how is the character development - from the indifferent rationalist to the woman capable for love - underlined?

Pearl S. Buck

Author : Peter Conn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521639897
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book Pearl S. Buck written by Peter Conn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-28 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most popular novelists of the twentieth century, winner of a Pulitzer and Nobel Prize for Literature and an active social and political campaigner, particularly in the field of women's issues and Asian-American relations, Pearl Buck has, until now, remained 'hidden in public view'. Best known, perhaps, as the prolific author of The Good Earth, Buck led a career which extended well beyond her eighty works of fiction and non-fiction and deep into the public sphere. In this critically acclaimed biography, Peter Conn retrieves Pearl Buck from the footnotes of literary and cultural history and reinstates her as a figure of compelling and uncommon significance in twentieth-century literary, cultural and political history.