New Pearl S. Buck Novel to be Available in the Fall

According to the New York Times, a recently discovered novel by Pearl S. Buck, The Eternal Wonder,  will be released this fall.

Forty years after being written, an unpublished novel by Pearl S. Buck, the Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, will be released this fall, her publisher said on Tuesday. 

The manuscript was stumbled upon in a storage unit in Texas and returned to the Buck family in December in exchange for a small fee, said Jane Friedman, the chief executive of Open Road Integrated Media, the publisher.

The Kindle Ebook is already available for pre-order on Amazon.com.  Remember that a portion of the proceeds from any purchases you make from Amazon through the links on this site benefit the Birthplace, so if you are interested in a pre-order, consider doing so here!

Former Americorps Volunteer's Book about the Birthplace Now Available as an EBook

Spring and Summer at the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace, by former Americorps volunteer Michael A. Toler, is now available as an EBook for $9.99 via Blub.com or on iTunes.  The book was the subject of an article by Suzanne Stewart in the May 9th issue of the Pocahontas Times.

While he was an AmeriCorps volunteer at Pearl S. Buck Birthplace, Michael Toler, now of Boston, Massachusetts, kept a blog about the Birthplace and a collection of photos on Instagram.

Toler never thought to combine the words and images in a book until his friend, graphic designer Martin Magee, made the suggestion...

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The blog referred to in the quotation is, of course, the one you are reading now.  A portion of the proceeds from the sale of the book benefit the Birthplace, so get your copy now.  

Pearl Buck's Work to be Available for E-Readers

If you're a geek like me, the announcement that came today that thirteen of Pearl Buck's novels will soon be available in digital format is very welcome news indeed.  According to an article in the New York Times

The novels will be released by Open Road Integrated Media and include The Good Earth, The Big Wave, The Promise and A House Divided.

I should point out that "The Big Wave" is not a novel, but rather a children's book, also sold as the main story in a short story collection, The Big Wave and Other Stories.  It's an exciting read, but certainly not a novel.