The Street of Precious Pearls
by Nora Waln
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About this eBook
- Author
- Waln, Nora, 1895-1964
- Credits
- E-text prepared by MWS, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DS: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Asia
- Subject
- Women -- China
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 59385
- Release Date
- April 28, 2019
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.E-text prepared by MWS, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( http://www.pgdp.net ) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( https://archive.org ) — The Street of Precious Pearls
- 2.Untitled
- 3.Wherein Yen Kuei Ping turns off from the Big Horse Street to make purchases on the Street of Precious Pearls
- 4.Wherein there is a wedding and Kuei Ping becomes a member of the family of Chia
- 5.Wherein there is a departure from family custom and Kuei Ping goes with her husband to live in Peking
- 6.Wherein a son is born and there is great rejoicing
- 7.Wherein shadows throw their length across the tidy courtyard
- 8.Wherein there is deepening sorrow
- 9.Wherein the heart of a woman is occupied with one desire
- 10.Wherein Kuei Ping prepares for a pilgrimage
- 11.Wherein there is patience and tenderness and understanding and a return to a little home village
- 12.Wherein twenty-seven slow years are added one upon another
- 13.Wherein the narrator becomes Kuei Ping’s pupil and is filled with wondering questions and is witness to a dream come true in its threefold parts
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