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The Good Earth is a historical fiction novel by Pearl S. Buck published in 1931 that dramatizes family life in a 20th-century Chinese village in Anhwei. It is the first book in her House of Earth trilogy, continued in Sons (1932) and A House Divided (1935).
The Good Earth is a timeless, moving story that depicts the sweeping changes that have occurred not only in the lives of the Chinese people during the last century, but also of everyone who has walked a part of this good earth.
The Good Earth, novel by Pearl Buck, published in 1931. The novel, about peasant life in China in the 1920s, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1932. The Good Earth follows the life of Wang Lung from his beginnings as an impoverished peasant to his eventual position as a prosperous.
A synopsis of Pearl S. Buck's novel about a poor farmer and his family in China. The novel traces their rise and fall from poverty to wealth and back again, and explores the themes of tradition, modernization, and human nature.
Sep 15, 2004 · In The Good Earth Pearl S. Buck paints an indelible portrait of China in the 1920s, when the last emperor reigned and the vast political and social upheavals of the twentieth...
Aug 21, 2012 · Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the William Dean Howells Award, The Good Earth was an Oprah’s Book Club choice in 2004. A readers’ favorite for generations, this powerful and...
Jun 2, 2020 · Simon and Schuster, Jun 2, 2020 - Fiction - 384 pages. The timeless Pulitzer Prize–winning masterpiece following a humble farmer’s journey through 1920s China returns with this...
