Summary: Morning glory: A small-town community-theatre actress comes to New York dreaming of theatrical stardom. She amuses a producer and a playwright with her naiviete. Partly out of sympathy, the playwright arranges for her to understudy a troublesome theatrical star. When the star walks out on opening night, the young actress goes on to triumphant success. She is warned not to let it go to her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KATSummary: A young farmer named Wang Lung marries a selfless, loyal slave girl, O-Lan. Wang is initially devoted to the land and rises to prosperity. Later, however, Wang deserts the land and takes a second wife and tragedy threatens to overwhelm him. Eventually Wang realizes that the land and O-Lan mean more to him than his wealth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GOOBuck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker)
Summary: Pearl S. Buck's timeless masterpiece, the Pulitzer Prize-winning story of a farmer's journey through China in the 1920s. The Good Earth is 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 afford to buy...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Open Road Media 2012
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Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker)
Summary: Restaurant owner Madam Liang, having sent her three daughters to America to be educated and to escape the coming Communist revolution in China, refuses herself to flee to safety even though her decision could end her life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Moyer Bell 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUCBuck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker)
Summary: An American diplomat's career in China.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: John Day Co. 1973
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Summary: Pearl S. Buck's epic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a China that was -- now in a Contemporary Classics edition. Though more than sixty years have passed since this remarkable novel won the Pulitzer Prize, it has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics. "I can only write what I know, and I know nothing but China, having always lived there," wrote Pearl Buck. In The...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BUCBuck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: J. Day Co. 1956
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Publisher / Publication Date: Moyer Bell 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUCBuck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker)
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Publisher / Publication Date: The John Day company 1946
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Summary: A recently discovered novel follows the gifted Randolph Colfax from birth to his early twenties as he searches for purpose and meaning in New York, England, Paris, and on his mission patrolling the DMZ in Korea.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ingram Pub Services 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUCBuck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker)
Summary: Wang Lang, a simple peasant farmer, takes as a wife a battered slave girl who becomes an indomitable, loyal woman. Working the land together, they prosper and increase their holdings, yet Wang eventually betrays his family and neglects the earth he had worshipped.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 1958
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Buck 1958Min, Anchee
Summary: Arriving in late 19th-century China with her missionary parents, Pearl Buck is soon fascinated by her new home and strikes up a friendship with a young Chinese girl named Willow. The two become inseparable even as civil war, failed relationships, and world conflicts threaten all they hold dear.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010