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East and West (1930) is the first novel by Pearl S. Buck. In the form of a confession, it depicts the profound conflict between East and West, tradition and modernity, through her marriage to an American-trained Chinese doctor.
A novel about a strong and untamable prospector for gold in Alaska, Burning Daylight, who, after becoming immensely rich, faces the corruption of the big city, love, and a crisis of meaning in life. One of London's most successful novels.
Babbitt (1922) is a satirical novel by Sinclair Lewis that depicts the life of George F. Babbitt, a typical American citizen – a successful real estate agent living in the conformity, materialism, and false morality of provincial American society.
The first part of the epic trilogy U.S.A. John Dos Passos. A mosaic of the fate of ordinary Americans in the period from 1900 to the First World War – ambition, struggle for survival, social unrest and the birth of modern America.
Pearl S. Buck depicts the life of Chinese peasant Wang Lung, his rise from poverty to wealth, and the disintegration of family ties. The novel explores the relationship between man and land, tradition, social change, and moral challenges.
Satirical prose, composed of six monologues by Lowell Schmaltz, a typical American traveling salesman, who sings the praises of the American way of life, President Coolidge, business, and "Nordic" superiority.