The exhilarating novel of an elegant woman’s subversive new chapter in lifeAt forty, Madame Wu is beautiful and much respected as the wife of one of China’s oldest upper-class houses. Her birthday wish is to find a young concubine for her husband and to move to separate quarters, starting a new chapter of her life. When her wish is granted, she finds herself at leisure, no longer consumed by running a sixty-person household. Now she’s free to read books previously ...

This tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China. The humble Wang Lung glories in the soil he works, nurturing the land as it nurtures him and his family. Nearby, the nobles of the House of Hwang consider themselves above the land and its workers; but they will soon meet their own downfall.

A timeless masterpiece from the New York Times –bestselling author, the Pulitzer Prize–winning story of a farmer's journey through China in the 1920s.The Good Earth is Pearl S. Buck's classic story of Wang Lung, a Chinese peasant farmer, and his wife, O-lan, a former slave. With luck and hard work, the couple's fortunes improve over the years: They are blessed with sons, and save steadily until one day they can a...

Nobel winner Pearl S. Buck’s classic debut novel, about one Chinese woman’s coming of age as she’s torn between Eastern and Western culturesKwei-lan is a traditional Chinese girl—taught by her mother to submit in all things, “as a flower submits to sun and rain alike.” Her marriage was arranged before she was born. As she approaches her wedding day, she’s surprised by one aspect of her anticipated life: Her husband-to-be has been educated abroad and follows many We...

"I am awed by my destructive power. With a small squeeze of the gun trigger under my right index finger, I can rip the turret off a thirty-ton battle tank and throw it 200 feet across the desert, while the rest of the tank burns in an explosion of white-hot, burning phosphorescence. But the cold, morbid reality of it does not exist from where I sit and watch it happen. There's no dramatic chord. No deafening explosion. No screams suddenly stifled. The soundtrack of a pilot's war is mos...

The New York Times –bestselling, multigenerational family saga that reaches from America to India by the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Good Earth .Beginning in the 1890s, Pulitzer Prize-winner Pearl S. Buck's Come, My Beloved describes an American family's involvement with India over four generations.Touched by the poverty he encounters in Bombay, self-made ...

The New York Times –bestselling trilogy: A Pulitzer Prize–winning classic novel of China, together with its two sequels—by the Nobel Prize winner.The Good Earth: With luck and hard work, Chinese peasant farmer Wang Lung and his wife O-lan, a former slave, improve their fortune. They have sons and save steadily until one day they can afford to buy property in the House of Wang—the very house in which O-lan used to...

A rakish lord. Lord Kenelm must have a wife. His choice falls on Miss Catherine Talbot. Surely, a generous settlement will counter his wicked reputation. He wants a marriage of convenience, and his untrammeled life as a man about town.An unusual lady. Catherine accepts the viscount's offer. She's risking her heart, but she's willing to tempt fate. The high-spirited beauty insists on a London Season. Catherine plans to humble the arrogant viscount.Lord Kenelm has no idea tha...

The Nobel Prize–winning author’s perceptive fable of cross-cultural passions in nineteenth-century ChinaIn 1850s China, a young girl, Peony, is sold to work as a bondmaid for a rich Jewish family in Kaifeng. Jews have lived for centuries in this region of the country, but by the mid-nineteenth century, assimilation has begun taking its toll on their small enclave. When Peony and the family’s son, David, grow up and fall in love with one another, they face strong op...

She never wants to marry again.The young widow wants to enjoy her freedom. Her disastrous marriage to the worst of husbands had only been entered into to help her family's floundering fortunes. Lady Lucinda Mays is determined never to make the same mistake. She moves to London to experience every delightful entertainment.Lord Wilfred Mays, her cousin-by-marriage, applauds Lucdina's decision. But he warns her that marital traps will be laid for her.After all, Lady Lu...

A lost novel of self-discovery and love from the New York Times –bestselling and Nobel and Pulitzer prize–winning author of The Good Earth .The Eternal Wonder tells the coming-of-age story of Randolph Colfax (Rann for short), an extraordinarily gifted young man whose search for meaning and purpose leads him to New York, England, Paris, a mission patrolling the DMZ in Ko...

A woman looks back on her long, rocky path to fulfillment in this revealing novel by the New York Times –bestselling author of The Good Earth .Considered one of the most personal and autobiographical novels by the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize–winning author, The Time Is Noon tells the story of Joan Richards and her journey of self-discovery during the first half of the twen...