Pavilion of Women (Oriental Novels of Pearl S. Buck) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9990234868 ISBN 13: 9789990234862

Publisher: Moyer Bell Ltd, 1946

Synopsis

A Pulitzer Prize-winning Author
A Nobel Prize-winning Author

Many of Pearl Buck's award-winning novels dealt largely with the peasants, the plain people of China, whose lives - though sturdy and dramatic - were rarely complex, whose thoughts and words were simple and direct. In Pavilion of Women, the story is of a great family of the landed gentry, well-to-do, cultivated, aware and in the midst of the variety of human experience.

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From the Publisher:

Madame Wu was to retire from married life and had planned to select a concubine for her husband. When the revered House of Wu is upturned by her decision, Madame Wu elegantly manages the situation and is granted private time she never had before. Yet, with all this new freedom, and the arrival of her son's English teacher, how will Madame Wu change?

"Pavilion of Women is Miss Buck at her best, the dedicated storyteller. Beneath the deceptive simplicity of the narrative flows the clear, swift tide of human life--the small commonplaces of daily living, the clashes of personality, the episodes mean and magnificent."

--Saturday Review of Literature

About the Author:

Pearl S. Buck was born in West Virginia and taken to China as an infant before the turn of the century. Buck grew up speaking Chinese as well as English. She is the most widely translated American author to this day. She has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature. She died in 1973.

About this edition

• Publisher: Moyer Bell Ltd
• Publication date: 1946
• ISBN 10: 9990234868
• ISBN 13: 9789990234862
• Binding: Hardcover