1938

Banquet speech

Pearl Buck’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1938 It is not possible for me to express all that I feel of appreciation for what has been said and given to me. I accept, for myself, with the conviction of having received far beyond what I have been…

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Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1938 The Chinese Novel Members of the Swedish Academy, Ladies and Gentlemen, When I came to consider what I should say today it seemed that it would be wrong not to speak of China. And this is none the less true because I am an American by birth and by ancestry…

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