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The Good Earth

Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973. Book - 2004 Fiction / Buck, Pearl, Adult Book / Fiction / Classic / Buck, Pearl S. None on shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4.2 out of 5

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Pearl S. Buck's epic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a China that was -- now in a Contemporary Classics edition. Though more than sixty years have passed since this remarkable novel won the Pulitzer Prize, it has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics. "I can only write what I know, and I know nothing but China, having always lived there," wrote Pearl Buck. In The Good Earth she presents a graphic view of a China when the last emperor reigned and the vast political and social upheavals of the twentieth century were but distant rumblings for the ordinary people. This moving, classic story of the honest farmer Wang Lung and his selfless wife O-lan is must reading for those who would fully appreciate the sweeping changes that have occurred in the lives of the Chinese people during this century. Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck traces the whole cycle of life: its terrors, its passions, its ambitions and rewards. Her brilliant novel -- beloved by millions of readers -- is a universal tale of the destiny of man.

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amazing story submitted by Josie Brown on June 28, 2013, 10:53am Teaches life lessons through one man's story during pre-revolutionary china

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PUBLISHED
New York : Washington Square Press, 2004.
Year Published: 2004
Description: 357 pages ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780743272933

SUBJECTS
Farmers' spouses -- Fiction.
Married women -- China -- Fiction.
Farm life -- Fiction.
China -- Fiction.
China -- History -- 1928-1937 -- Fiction.
China -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.