Hearts Come Home and Other Stories

by Pearl S. Buck

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• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671756346
• ISBN13: 9780671756345
• Release Date: January 1970
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.

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UNFORGETTABLE STORIES BY A BELOVED STORYTELLER

IT WAS THE PUBLICATION OF THE GOOD EARTH IN 1931 THAT WON THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR PEARL S.BUCK THAT ESTABLISHED HER GREATNESS, BUT MISS,BUCK'S FAME AS A NOVELIST HAS TOO OFTEN OBSCURED THE RARE AND DISTINGUISHED QUALITY OF HER SHORT STORIES , THEY ARE PRESENTED HERE IN ALL IT'S SPLENDOR ,MEMORABLE FOR THEIR SHEER STORYTELLING QUALITY ,UNFORGETTABLE FOR THEIR DEEP MEANING -THEIR PROFOUND AND WARM HUMANITY INCLUDED IN THIS VOLUME, 1.THE ENEMY 2.HEARTS COME HOME 3.THE NEW ROAD 4.ENOUGH FOR A LIFETIME 5.HEAT WAVE 6.THE QUARREL 7.THE TRUCE 8.THE REFUGEE 9.MRS. MERCER AND HERSELF 10.THE OLD MOTHER 11.HOME TO HEAVEN 12.HOME GIRL 13.MR RIGHT 14.MOTHERS AND SONS Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (1892-1973), an American Nobel Prize-winning novelist, dedicated her books and her personal activities to the improvement of relations between Americans and Asians Pearl Sydenstricker was born in Hillsboro, West Virginia, on June 26, 1892. Her parents were Presbyterian missionaries, on furlough at the time of her birth from their activities in Chinkiang, China, although they soon returned there. During the anti-foreign Boxer Rebellion of 1900, the family was forced to flee to Shanghai where, from In 1917 she married John Lossing Buck, an American agricultural specialist, with whom she settled in northern China. From 1921 until 1934 they lived chiefly in Nanking, where her husband taught agricultural theory. Buck occasionally taught English literature at several universities in the city, although most of her time was spent caring for her mentally disabled daughter and her infirm parents. In 1925 Buck returned to the United States where she received a master's degree in English in 1926. Back in Nanking the following year, she barely escaped a revolutionary army attack on the city. Meanwhile, because of her family's financial difficulties, she resolved to begin writing. Buck's first novel, East Wind: West Wind (1930), a study of the conflict between the old China and the new, was followed by The Good Earth (1931), a profoundly affecting novel of Chinese peasant life, which won her a Pulitzer Prize. In 1933 Buck received a second master's degree, this time from Yale University, and in 1934 she took up permanent residence in the United States. In 1935 she divorced John Buck and married Richard J. Walsh, her publisher. Her extensive literary output--Sons (1932), The First Wife and Other Stories (1933), The Mother (1934), A House Divided (1935), and biographies of her father and mother, The Exile (1936) and Fighting Angel (1936) respectively--culminated in a 1938 Nobel Prize for literature, the first ever awarded to a woman. In the next three decades, while continuing to write prolifically, Buck worked to promote racial tolerance and ease the plight of disadvantaged Asians, particularly children. In 1941 she founded the East and West Association to promote greater understanding among the world's peoples, and in 1949 she established Welcome House, an adoption age