Pearl S. Buck
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Although all the Kennedys have been constantly on display, the women have always stood in the shadows of their strong, brilliant and ambitious men. This is a woman's view of the tragic deterioration of a proud and powerful family, caused by the standards and failures of the society that spawned it.
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El eterno asombro es una novela de aprendizaje a cuyo protagonista, Randolph Colfax, un joven extraordinariamente dotado, la búsqueda del sentido y la finali-dad de la vida conduce a Nueva York, Inglaterra, París, una misión de vigilancia en la zona desmilitarizada de Corea que cambiará su vida para siempre y, en última instancia, al amor. Rann, que es su diminutivo, cae enamorado de la hermosa e igualmente brillante Stephanie Kung, que vive...
55) The good earth
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In [this book], Pearl S. Buck paints an indelible portrait of China in the 1920s, when the last emperor reigned and the vast political and social upheavals of the twentieth century were but distant rumblings. This moving story of the honest farmer Wang Lung and his selfless wife O-Lan is must reading to fully appreciate the sweeping changes that have occurred in the lives of the Chinese people during the last century. Though more than eighty years...
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An English translation of the fourteenth-century Chinese novel about a band of robbers who flee society and take refuge on a great mountain where they form a community based on rigid laws of warfare, conduct, and courtesy.
"This translation of a Chinese classic (14th Century) is the epic tale of a band of patriots in China during the latter part of Sung Dynasty and is considered by most to be one to the three or four greatest novels in Chinese literature....