The Best English-Language Fiction of the Twentieth Century
A Composite List and Ranking
by Brian Kunde
 
INTRODUCTION
SOURCE LISTS
COMPOSITE LIST
RANKING SYSTEM
COLUMN KEY
REVIEWS
LINKS

Reviews.

<- Buck, Pearl S., 1892-1973.
         Birth name: Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker. American author born in Hillsboro, West Virginia and raised in Zhenjiang, China. Married to agricultural economist John Lossing Buck and later to publisher Richard J. Walsh. Best known for her novels of China. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel (1932), the William Dean Howells Medal (1935) and the Nobel Prize for Literature (1938).
  • <- The Good Earth. 1931.
             The life story of Wang Lung, an initially poor Chinese peasant whom circumstances and the canniness of his wife O Lan raise to wealth. Adapted to film in 1937. Followed by sequels, Sons (1932) and A House Divided (1935).
Posted Jul. 8, 2005, and last updated Jul. 8, 2005.
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