Pearl S. Buck Audio & Video

This Pulitzer Prize-winning classic tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China.

Pearl Buck, a Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning novelist, talked to Mike Wallace about American women, marriage, career versus family, and the difference between men and women.

As with Pearl Buck's most famous 1st novel, The Good Earth, this 2nd book also describes peasant life in rural China about 150 years ago--from a woman's close perspective.

Young Peony is sold into a rich Chinese household as a bondmaid - an awkward role in which she is more a servant, but less a daughter....

One of the more political novels from the pen of Pearl Buck, Dragon Seed brings to light the tragedy of the Japanese invasion and occupation of mainland China during WWII.

On her fortieth birthday, Madame Wu carries out a decision she has been planning for a long time: she tells her husband that after twenty-four years their physical life together is now over and she wishes him to take a second wife.