THE FIRST WIFE, and Other StoriesPearl S. BuckJohn Day ($2.50).
No writer of modern times has staked a claim to a bigger tract than Authoress Buck. For U. S. readers, at least. China is her acknowledged province; so far she has the field to herself. The Good Earth, which won her the Pulitzer Prize (1931) and made her name a household word in the U. S., was a best-seller for 24 monthsnot equalled by any other U. S. novel. Says Introducer Richard J. Walsh: "It seems clear that no native Chinese, however schooled...
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