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by Pearl S. Buck
About 3 pages (914 words)
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As propaganda designed to enlist the sympathy of Americans for the plight of the Chinese at the hands of the Japanese, Dragon Seed belongs to a long tradition of ulteriorly motivated fiction dating from the doctrinaire religious allegory of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress (1678) up to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1851-1852) and the works of the American muckrakers such as Samuel.....

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Dragon Seed from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.

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