A House Divided (Second Edition 1945) Copyright 1935 (House of Earth trilogy, Volume 3)

"Wang Yuan was nineteen years old when he came home from the south to quarrel with his father." So begins Pearl S. Buck in the third volume of her fine trilogy. A deeply moving story of China - a country in conflict, a house divided against itself by the counter forces of tradition and progressiveness. Wang Yuan is the son of Wang the Tiger, a great and ruthless war lord. But Yuan is a young man in whom has been instilled a deep loathing of violence. He says, "My father shaped me for a lord of war, but I hate blood and killing and the stink of guns and all the noise of armies."Pearl Buck has rounded out her trilogy with a magnificent story of one man and his time, of how this man came at last to set his face toward the future, and of how the love of a woman gave him the courage he needed to go forward. With the insight and compassion she always displayed for the Chinese people, Miss Buck has produced a novel which deserves to rank with her greatest work.