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My several worlds Paperback – January 1, 1960

by Pearl S Buck (Author)
4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 220 ratings
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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
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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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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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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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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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Diane Secchiaroli
5.0 out of 5 stars Pearl Buck
Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2019
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This autobiography covers her childhood, adolescence, and young womanhood growing up in China as well as her eventual return to America. The stories she wields are entertaining and insightful. This book makes you want to read all her novels of which I have made a good start. She constantly conveys her insights into people she has observed weaving them as examples of her philosophy on various matters. She is a complex woman with much to expound upon. Her philosophy is surprisingly current. She was a truly amazing woman who traveled the world learning about people. Her characters are well defined 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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Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2021
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Item arrived on time, as described by seller. Great product and service.
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JANET PETERSON
4.0 out of 5 stars Historical entertainment based on truth.
Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2022
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I decided to read a classic and it didn’t disappoint
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Sharon Henderson
5.0 out of 5 stars My Several Worlds Revisited
Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2016
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Prior to living among the Chinese, when I was a young woman, I read all of the books authored by Pearl Buck. Revisiting this book, now that I am about the same age, as Mrs. Buck, when she reflectively penned her life story, renews life lessons taught therein. The wisdom of taking time to understand one another, regardless of culture and any other differences, is paramount to our own knowledge of human nature.
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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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