Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker was born on June 26, 1892, in Hillsboro, West Virginia. Her parents were Southern Presbyterian missionaries, most often stationed in China, and from childhood, Pearl spoke both English and Chinese. She returned to China shortly after graduation from Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia, in 1914, and the following year, she met a young agricultural economist named John Lossing Buck. They married in 1917, and immediately moved to Nanhsuchou in rural Anhwei province. In this impoverished community, Pearl Buck gathered the material that she would later use in The Good Earth and other stories of China.
Pearl began to publish stories and essays in the 1920s, in magazines such as The Nation, The Chinese Recorder, Asia, and The Atlantic Monthly. Her first novel, East Wind, West Wind, was published by the John Day Company in 1930. John Day's publisher, Richard Walsh, would eventually become Pearl's second husband, in 1935, after both received divorces.
In 1931, John Day published Pearl's second novel, The Good Earth. This became the bestselling book of both 1931 and 1932, won the Pulitzer Prize and the Howells Medal in 1935, and would be adapted as a major MGM film in 1937. Other novels and books of nonfiction quickly followed. In 1938, less than a decade after her first book had appeared, Pearl won the Nobel Prize in literature, the first American woman to do so. By the time of her death in 1973, Pearl had published more than seventy books: novels, collections of stories, biography and autobiography, poetry, drama, children's literature, and translations from the Chinese. She is buried at Green Hills Farm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
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 Good Earth she presents a graphic view of a China when the last emperor reigned and the vast political and social upheavals of the twentieth century were but distant rumblings for the ordinary people. This moving, classic story of the honest farmer Wang Lung and his selfless wife O-lan is must reading for those who would fully appreciate the sweeping changes that have occurred in the lives of the Chinese people during this century.
Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck traces the whole cycle of life: its terrors, its passions, its ambitions and rewards. Her brilliant novel -- beloved by millions of readers -- is a universal tale of the destiny of man.
1933年7月3日,胡适在前往美国途中,在夏威夷有Mrs. Dillingham赠送一本Mrs. Pearl Buck的小说Good Earth(《良田》),并对胡适说“你到美国,处处必有人问你对此书的意见,你还是让我送你一本,在船上读了他”。可见这本书在美国应当是热销书。胡适对此书评价如下: 此书实...
评分The Grey World ------Review of THE GOOD EARTH Pearl.S.Buck, an American writer ,growing up in China ,can write such a long work about Chinese farmer which indeed astonished me tremendously. she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and tru...
评分很小的時候已看過中文譯本, 深深愛上賽珍珠, 現在大了才知道一個將中國農村生活寫得活靈活現的人原來是個鬼婆兼諾貝爾獎得主! 英文原著一定更原汁原味!
评分From either Red Sorghum or The Good Earth, I can get a simple impression of the traditional Chinese local culture. The two novels have many similarities. For example, both the two stories set up in a turbulent epoch, and they say praise of famers’ wisdom...
…appreciate the simple style which makes vivid images, especially peasant images, for peasants themselves are simple and unadorned.
评分"It was the last morning he would have to prepare food for the old man"/ 近期讀得最慢的一本書,賽珍珠的《大地》。寫得很好,不知道當年她在中國住的那段時間的經歷和心境是怎樣,想讀一下她的傳記。
评分对乡土中国有很好的认识,可见作者在中国时对周遭体会的透彻
评分…appreciate the simple style which makes vivid images, especially peasant images, for peasants themselves are simple and unadorned.
评分很朴实!容易读。是美国了解中国农民的一个微小微小一角。同时又足以概括普通的一生。略沉重。
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