The Good Earth | Epic Qualities in Buck’s Novels
In the following essay, Chauhan illuminates the epic qualities in Buck’s novels
It was certainly the power of Pearl S. Buck’s fiction that brought her to the tables of presidents and into the counsels of ambassadors. It was the enchantment of her stories that captivated millions around the globe and won her the Nobel Prize, making her the first woman recipient of both the Pulitzer and the Nobel awards for literature. And yet the keepers of academic gates have hardly shown much zeal for her work. When they have praised her, as did Henry Seidel Canby in his 1938 review of The Good Earth, or Carl Van Doren in his 1940 study The American Novel,...
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