Category: Classics

After her husband takes a concubine, Madame Liang sets out on her own, starting an upscale restaurant and sending her daughters to America to be educated. At the restaurant, the leaders of the People's Republic wine and dine and Madame Liang must keep a low profile for her daughters' sake. Soon her two eldest daughters are called back to serve the People's Republic. Her oldest daughter, Grace, now a doctor, finds meaning through her work. Things are not as easy for her daughter Mercy, a musician who is not in demand in the People's Republic, nor for her new husband who she has brought back to ...
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The Good Earth (Oprah's Book Club)

By: Buck, Pearl S.

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Washington Square Press: September 2004

Seller ID: 378923

ISBN: 0743272935

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Nobel Laureate Pearl S. Buck's epic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and Oprah Book Club selection about a vanished China and one family's shifting fortunes.

Though more than seventy years have passed since this remarkable novel won the Pulitzer Prize, it has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics. In The Good Earth 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, classic story of the honest farmer Wang ...
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Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography

By: Buck, Pearl S.

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: August 1996

Seller ID: 380791

ISBN: 0521560802

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Pearl S. Buck was one of the most renowned, interesting, and controversial figures ever to influence American and Chinese cultural and literary history--and yet she remains one of the least studied, honored, or remembered. In this richly illustrated and meticulously crafted narrative, Conn recounts Buck's life in absorbing detail, tracing the parallel course of American and Chinese history. This "cultural biography" thus offers a dual portrait: of Buck, a figure greater than history cares to remember, and of the era she helped to shape.
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A Vision of Battlements

By: Burgess, Anthony

Price: $11.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton: January 1965

Seller ID: 308544

ISBN: 0283354070

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The head of the house of Coombe,

By: Burnett, Frances (Hodgson)

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Frederick A. Stokes company: January 1922

Seller ID: 303873

ISBN: B0006AIOBG

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Secret Garden (Modern Library Classics)

By: Burnett, Frances Hodgson

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Modern Library: November 2003

Seller ID: 379919

ISBN: 0812969987

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

"The Secret Garden should be on every child's bookshelf."--Amanda Craig, The Time

An enchanting story of transformation and compassion, Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden is widely considered to be one of the most important works of children's literature. After her parents die of cholera, Mary Lennox, a difficult and sickly little girl, is brought from India to her mysterious uncle's sprawling estate on the Yorkshire moors. Mary continues in her self-absorbed ways until one day she discovers a hidden and neglected garden adjoining her uncle's mansion. ...
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The Secret Garden (Oxford World's Classics)

By: Burnett, Frances Hodgson,Hunt, Peter

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press: May 2011

Seller ID: 376459

ISBN: 0199588228

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

An orphaned girl, a grim moorland manor with hundreds of empty rooms, strange cries in the night, and a walled garden, with its door locked and the key buried. These are the ingredients of one of the most famous and well-loved of children's classics, an inspiring story of regeneration and salvation that gently subverted the conventions of a century of romantic and gothic fiction for girls. Marking the one hundredth anniversary of the publication of The Secret Garden, this new edition of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic tale of redemption and renewal features a fascinating introductio...
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Evelina

By: Burney, Frances

Price: $4.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: March 1965

Seller ID: 319101

ISBN: 0393002942

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Fanny Burney's Evelina was written in secret and published anonymously in 1778. The story of a young woman entering a society that is seemingly designed to threaten her success, Evelina is an example of the epistolary genre popular in the 18th Century.
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Tarzan of the Apes (Fall River Press Edition): The Adventures of Lord Greystoke, Book One (The Adventures of Lord Greystoke series)

By: Burroughs, Edgar Rice

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Fall River: June 2011

Seller ID: 363981

ISBN: 1435134478

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

After a mutiny on board their ship, British noble couple Lord and Lady Greystoke are marooned by the crew on a desolate African beach with their newborn son, John Clayton. Not long after, the founding boy is an orphan, his mother dead of natural causes and his father at the hands of a vicious ape.
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Category: Classics