Literature

Sabrana dela 2: Dobra zemlja

Pearl S. Buck prikazuje život kineskog seljaka Wanga Lunga, njegov uspon od siromaštva do bogatstva te raspad obiteljskih veza. Roman istražuje odnos čovjeka i zemlje, tradicije, društvenih promjena i moralnih kušnji.

Sabrana dela 3: Drugi bogovi

Roman „Drugi bogovi“ je satirična i psihološka priča o američkom kultu slavnih, idolopoklonstvu i potrebi masa da od običnih ljudi stvore „bogove“.

Sabrana dela 4: Duga ljubav

Edward "Ned" Haslatt loves his wife Margaret devotedly, but their marriage is a silent battle between his idealized devotion and her sharp, level-headed pragmatism—a search for a love that matures, not burns out.

Sabrana dela 5: Duh i telo (Izgnanstvo / Ratoborni anđeo)

In two memorial portraits, Buck writes about his mother Caroline, a lonely and imaginative exile, and his father Absalom, a stern missionary-warrior—two contrasting souls in the shadow of China.

Sabrana dela 6: Glasovi u kući

In the patrician Asher family, longtime servants and their daughter Jessica live in the shadow of their master; when the girl gets out of control, the stability of the house collapses.

Sabrana dela 7: Istočni vetar – zapadni vetar

"East Wind, West Wind" (1930) is one of Pearl S. Buck's early novels. In an arranged marriage to a Western-educated husband, young Kwei-lan slowly abandons tradition and discovers love in the clash of two cultures.

Sabrana dela 8: Jedan brak

Sabrana dela 9: Mandala

Mandala is one of Pearl S. Buck's most mature and spiritual novels, a rare work set in India. The title Mandala (symbol of wholeness) perfectly captures the core of the story: a search for meaning, wholeness, and the reconciliation of opposites.

Sabrana dela Leonida Leonova - Soć, skakavci

The novel depicts social and moral changes in Russia after the revolution.

Sabrana dela V: Rat je bio bolji

Conceived and realized as a separate unit, this novel can also be interpreted as the second part of the book "A Hero on a Donkey". To a greater extent than in "Hero", here the war "which was better" is presented as a giant burlesque and as a pool of demon