Beyond the Good Earth Minnie Penney His works are foundational for

His works are foundational for our understanding of early colonialism

is an invitation to join bizarre characters in a most unusual fancy dress party

High on imagination

the mysterious stranger

sometimes agreeing with facts found in history books and sometimes not

Beyond the Good Earth Minnie Penney His works are foundational forHow well do we really know Pearl S. Buck? Many think of Buck solely as the Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Good Earth, the novel that explained China to Americans in the 1930s. But Buck was more than a novelist and interpreter of China. As the essays in Beyond The Good Earth show, she possessed other passions and projects, some of which are just now coming into focus. Who knew, for example, that Buck imagined and helped define