Abstract

Pearl Buck's Worlds

The article presents information on the book "My Several Worlds," by Pearl S. Buck. Buck's more than two dozen novels, translations, and non-fiction books interpreting traditional and revolutionary Asia have fully justified the early award to her of the Nobel prize in literature. The present volume begins with the author's infant memories of China in the days of the Boxers, and carries the personal story down to her present vigorous life as a writer, mother, educator. It is an absorbing narrative told with warmth and humor and insight, often as moving as her best novels, with the easy grace and integrity notable in her biographies of her missionary parents. Written in modesty and humility, the book faithfully mirrors the mind and heart and strength of a truly admirable and distinguished American.