Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perched in the mountains of the tiny Kingdom of Albania. Boom followed boom until 101 had shaken the sleeping town. A son and heir had just been born to King Zog I and his Hungarian-American consort, Queen Geraldine. The man-child was named Skander after the great Albanian patriot who in the 15th Century stood off the Turks during some 30 years of hard fighting...
...PATRIOT - Pearl S. Buck - John...
...such standards, The Patriot ranks with her best work. Aiming at twice the scope of The Good Earth, Pearl Buck this time pays tribute to the common people of Japan as well as China...
...patriot is Iwan, idealistic favorite son of a powerful Shanghai banker. Drawn into a secret group of revolutionary students, he organizes an armed corps among the Shanghai silkworkers, narrowly escapes Chiang Kai-shek's blood purge of the Communists in 1927. His father saves his life by exiling him to Japan...
...terms of episodes, never halting in the emotional crises, but never going into one just before lunch. Declaring she would rather be an "American writer than anything else," she is gradually unlearning the habit of thinking in Chinese idiom. Her next book (finished in fact before The Patriot) will be a sequel to her weakest novel, This Proud Heart, her first with a U. S. setting. She says she will never again live in China, may visit it when she knows for certain "what shape it will assume...