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Fighting angel : portrait of a soul / by Pearl S. Buck.
LIBRA PS3503.U198 F54 1936
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- Author/Creator:
- Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sydenstricker, Absalom, 1852-1931.
- Sydenstricker, Absalom.
- Missions--China.
- Missions.
- China.
- China--History.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 3 preliminary leaves, 9 unnumbered pages-302 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Published by John Day in association with Reynal & Hitchcock, [1936]
- Summary:
- This is the life story of Pearl Buck's father. Only the names of the people are changed. Sydenstricker was a contradictory and irascible man, isolated him from the rest of the missionary community, but he was also a man of stern convictions and complex personality sufficient reason to look again into the lives of individuals in order to gain understanding of today's Chinese church.
- Notes:
- "A John Day book."
- "Fighting angel, the biography of the author's father, is a companion volume to The exile, which is a biography of her mother. Together they form a work to be entitled The spirit and the flesh."--1st prelim. leaf.
- "Fighting angel, the biography of the author's father, is a companion volume to The exile, which is a biography of her mother. Together they form a work to be entitled The spirt and the flesh." -- 1st prelim. leaf.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973. Fighting angel.
- OCLC:
- 385747
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