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My several worlds Paperback – January 1, 1960

by Pearl S Buck (Author)
4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 287 ratings
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    January 1, 1960
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0007FCU7O
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pocket Books; Cardinal ed edition (January 1, 1960)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 472 pages
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.2 pounds
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 287 ratings

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Pearl S. Buck

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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.

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Customers enjoy the writing style of the autobiography. They find it well-written and articulate, with descriptions of places and experiences that are detailed.

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  • S. Schrock
    5.0 out of 5 stars Buck at her Best
    Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2023
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    I loved this book! It filled in so many details of Pearl Buck's personal life and personality and made me wish she was still alive so I could actually meet her. I was a little bit disappointed that she didn't say more about her first marriage but I can understand why she didn't and can respect her for that decision.

    Since I've read so many of her books about China, I didn't think there was much more I could learn but this particular book was enlightening in ways some of the others were not, probably since it was written from the perspective of an American rather than a native Chinese.

    Really, really good. So glad I read it.
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  • susana friedmann
    4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2014
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    Fascinating and well-written. Makes a critique of colonialism.
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  • B Hallanger
    5.0 out of 5 stars Love her books
    Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2024
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    This book reminds me of my own several worlds especially since I lived in China and Burma for many years. I love all of this author's books.
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  • TucsonVic
    5.0 out of 5 stars My first, not the last, book by Buck.
    Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2022
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    I had heard of her, but had never read her works. Her writing style captivated me early on. This will not be the last of her works I will read. She can make the most mundane beautiful and interesting.
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  • Olivertea
    5.0 out of 5 stars My journey to different worlds
    Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2019
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    Pear Buck's view of people she encountered in her life was keen, truthful with no partiality. Unfortunately she was treated unfairly by a country under changes of regime that she observed and knew profoundly more than its own people expelled her later in her life, perhaps because of pride or fear of facing the truth.
    Most of all Pearl Buck's skillful writing made all characters in her stories come alive.
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  • TBP/Rock/Va
    4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book, but it drags on a bit
    Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2022
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    This is a rather undocumented part of WW 2. This fills in some blanks and after reading it, you have to wonder how the UK hung in there until Dec 7 with some of the boobs in their Government - excluding Winston. Vera Atkins should have received a lot more recognition - she gave so much and received so little.
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  • Paul
    5.0 out of 5 stars This autobiography is well written and takes the reader through ...
    Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2014
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    This autobiography is well written and takes the reader through the rich, varied, and successful life of a woman who asked questions and found insights into the human condition, finding her own way in turbulent and fascinating times, all the while gaining wisdom and understanding. Her story is about herself, but also about the people she met along her journey, people she turned into memorable characters, and the many places she lived, and visited, and described so well in her books.
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  • sharyl gandara
    5.0 out of 5 stars Wanted to own this since I first read it from the library
    Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2013
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    Pearl Buck is an amazing author, she knows what to skip over and what stories from her life to tell. There are so many good stories in this book!!
    I am just fascinated by her life in China, her interpitations and if becomes obvious why she won the Nobel Prize!! It is a long book but one that you do not want to end.
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  • Jacqueline Parser
    5.0 out of 5 stars amazing women
    Reviewed in Canada on March 17, 2023
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    Amazing insights into Asia history and the Chinese people. A brilliant woman who contributed greatly to our understanding of China
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