Pearl S. Buck - Come My Beloved, 1953 FIRST EDITION

Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize winner, Pearl S. Buck, was one of the most popular and prolific writers of the 20th century. This is a FIRST EDITION of Come My Beloved, published in 1953 by John Day Publishing.
 
ABOUT THE STORY (Courtesy of Amazon)
For the first time, Pearl Buck uses India for the primary scene of her novel. In the larger sense, however, this profound story reaches across the world to follow man's universal search for God. It tells of three men of stubborn will and deep heart who struggle to express each in his own time, in his own place, the eternal yearning of mankind toward the highest good. Opening in Bombay, in the nineties, flashing now and then to New York, the book conveys vivid pen pictures of India, the cities, and villages, the interiors of Indian homes, rich and poor, the landscapes, the monsoons, the magnificent dunbar during the Prince of Wales' visit, the Christian missionaries, the warm-hearted Indian people. David MacArd, an American multi-millionaire, struck by the poverty and squalor of India, resolves to found a great theological school to train young men to go out a Christian missionaries. When his only son decides to go to India himself and work directly for God there, his father is so angry that he abandons his plans. Olivia, with whom the younger David is in love, follows him to India. Their son Theodore, not content with the usual work of a missionary, goes out to live in a "mud-wall village' among the poor. Each man comes one step nearer to the final achievement of spiritual success.

BIXLEY NOTES
• Come My Beloved
• Written by Pearl S. Buck
• Published by John Day in association with Reynal & Hitchcock, 1953
• FIRST EDITION
• 311 pages
• Linen hardcover with dust jacket

VINTAGE NOTES
• In very good condition.
• Binding is nice and tight
• No apparent shelf wear on the hardcover
• Dust jacket is a bit worn with tiny creases and tears along the edges.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (1892-1973), also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu (Chinese: 赛珍珠), was an American writer and novelist. In October 1892, her family took the 4-month-old baby girl to China. As the daughter of missionaries to China, and later as a missionary herself, Buck spent most of her life before 1934 in Zhenjiang. The family spent their summers in a villa in Kuling town, Mountain Lu, Jiujiang, and it was during this annual pilgrimage that the young girl decided to become a writer. The Good Earth was the best-selling novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, Buck won the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces." She was the first American woman to win the prize.

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