Moyer Bell Fiction / Historical Rights: North America ISBN: 1-55921-033-8 384 pages | 5 1/2" x 8 1/2 " Paperbound | $ 13.95 |
Dragon Seed Buck, Pearl S. Dragon Seed is streaked with tragedy, but as in Mrs. Buck's best work, the juice of life flows strongly through it; humor and passion are still here, appropriately muted but not dead. These people live close to the earth and their lives partake of the vigor and fertility, its patience, its eternal self-renewal....As ever, Mrs. Buck's style is deceptive, for it is simple and yet equal to all the complex things required of it. — Books |
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To the Chinese the dragon is not an evil creature, but is a god and the friend of men who worship him. He "holds in his power prosperity and peace." Ruling the waters and the winds, he sends the good rain, is hence the symbol of fecundity. In the Hsia dynasty two dragons fought a great duel until both disappeared, leaving only a fertile foam from which were born the descendants of the Hsia. This the dragons came to be looked upon as the ancestors of a race of heroes. This is the story of China at War. |
Pearl S. Buck was born in West Virginia and taken to China before the turn of the century. She began writing while in China and publishing her first novel shortly after returning to this country. Ms. Buck won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for The Good Earth and the Noble Prize in Literature in 1938. |
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