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The Good Earth

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By (author): Pearl S. Buck

When O-lan, a servant girl, marries the peasant Wang Lung, she toils tirelessly through four pregnancies for their family's survival. Reward at first is meagre, but there is sustenance in the land - until the famine comes.

Half-starved, the family joins thousands of peasants to beg on the city streets. It seems that all is lost, until O-lan's desperate will to survive returns them home with undreamt of wealth. But they have betrayed the earth from which true wealth springs, and the family's money breeds only mistrust, deception - and heartbreak for the woman who had saved them.

The Good Earthis a riveting family saga and story of female sacrifice - a classic of twentieth-century literature. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 130 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 14 Jan 2016
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781471151873

About Pearl S. Buck

Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker was born in 1892 in West Virginia. Her parents were Southern Presbyterian missionaries most often stationed in China and from childhood Pearl spoke both English and Chinese. She returned to China in 1914 and married John Lossing Buck. They immediately moved to Nanhsuchou in rural Anhwei province. In 1931 John Day published Pearl's second novel The Good Earth. This was the bestselling book of both 1931 and 1932 and won the Pulitzer Prize. In 1938 Pearl won the Nobel Prize in literature the first American woman to do so. By the time of her death in 1973 Pearl had published more than seventy books: novels collections of stories biography and autobiography poetry drama children's literature and translations from the Chinese.

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