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The Good Earth
by Pearl S. Buck
August 2005
Synopsis
"Wang Lung, rising from humble Chinese farmer to wealthy landowner, gloried in the soil he worked. He held it above his family, even above his gods. But soon, between Wang Lung and the kindly soil that sustained him, came flood and drought, pestilence and revolution....
Through this one Chinese peasant and his children, Nobel Prize-winner Pearl S. Buck traces the whole cycle of life, its terrors, its passion, its persistent ambitions and its rewards. Her brilliant novel—beloved by millions of readers throughout the world—is a universal tale of the destiny of men."
Reviews
- "To read this story of Wang Lung is to be slowly and deeply purified; and when the last page is finished it is as if some significant part of one's own days were over." (Bookman)
- "A beautiful, beautiful book. At last we read, in the pages of a novel, of the real people of China." (Saturday Review)
- "The Good Earth has style, power, coherence and a pervasive sense of dramatic reality." (The New York Times Book Review)
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Other Books by Pearl S. Buck
- Angry Wife
- Big Fight
- The Big Wave
- Bridge for Passing
- Child Who Never Grew
- Chinese Story Teller
- Christmas Day in the Morning
- Death in the Castle
- Dragon Seed
- East Wind, West Wind
- Enemy
- Exile
- Field of Rice
- Fighting Angel
- Fourteen Stories
- House Divided
- Imperial Woman
- Kinfolk
- Living Reed
- Mandala
- The Mother
- Pavilion of Women
- Peony
- The Promise
- Sons