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A House Divided by Pearl S. Buck

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Author Biography

Name: Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Birth Date: June 26, 1892
Death Date: 1973
Place of Birth: Hillsboro, West Virginia, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Female
Occupations: novelist, writer

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Biography of Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
678 words, approx. 2.3 pages
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (1892-1973), an American Nobel Prize-winning novelist, dedicated her books and her personal activities to the improvement of relations between Americans and Asians. Pearl Sydenstricker was born in Hillsboro, West Virginia, on Jun...
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Biography of Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
3553 words, approx. 11.8 pages
Pearl S. Buck's genius as a writer lay in her ability to portray her characters in a universal manner; their joys, sorrows, problems, and disillusionments transcend cultural barriers to become understandable to all readers. Buck's earlier works, most of...
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Biography of Pearl S. Buck
3132 words, approx. 10.4 pages
"One pays the price for being prolific," bestselling author Pearl S. Buck once told an interviewer. "Heaven knows the literary Establishment can't forgive me for it, nor for the fact that my books sell." In retrospect, Buck's assessment of her own career...
 


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A House Divided Information
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The term comes from President Lincoln's "House Divided" speech - a reference to the Gospel of Mark chapter 3 verse 25, King James Version: "If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot...


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Investor's Business Daily
A House Divided Against Itself
9/4/2007: 635 words, approx. 2 pages
Politics: Not every Democrat concedes that the surge is working. In her radio response to President Bush, a member of the opposing party tells us what she did on her summer vacation.Illinois Rep. Jan Schakowsky, who recently visited Iraq while Congress was on vacation, was...
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Wisdom of the ages invoked in Iraq debate
2/14/2007: 607 words, approx. 2 pages
House debate over the Iraq war did more than pit Democrat against Republican. It pitted ghosts of the past against each other.Historical figures, some long gone, were invoked in the debate Tuesday. A terrorist's dark words were enlisted. So were the musings of a poet....
 


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