Sentences with phrase «descriptions of peasants»

Social history presents narrative descriptions of peasants, their families, behaviors, roles and the like.
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (born June 26, 1892 in Hillsboro, West Virginia) was an important and much lauded American writer, famous for her depictions of China and Chinese culture, which earned her a Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for the novel The Good Earth and the first Nobel Prize awarded to an American woman for Literature in 1938 «for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces».
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