Dragon Seed
New York: The John Day Company, 1942. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good / Good. Item #2330635
First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with some small chips and small tears. Endpaper gutters lightly soiled.
378 pp. Buck won the Pulitzer in 1932 and the Nobel Prize in Literature (the first woman to win the latter). To the Chinese the dragon is not an evil creature, but is a god and the friend of men who worship him. He "holds in his power prosperity and peace." Ruling the waters and the winds, he sends the good rain, is hence the symbol of fecundity. In the Hsia dynasty two dragons fought a great duel until both disappeared, leaving only a fertile foam from which were born the descendants of the Hsia. Thus, the dragons came to be looked upon as the ancestors of a race of heroes. This is the story of China at War.
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