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A short summary of Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of The Good Earth.
The Good Earth. Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1931. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. Download PDF.
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Literature Notes. The Good Earth. Book Summary. The novel opens on Wang Lung's wedding day. Wang is a Chinese peasant farmer who lives with his father; his mother died six years earlier. His intended bride, O-lan, is a slave in the prosperous House of Hwang.
The Good Earth was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1932 and was adapted into a film in 1937 that won the Best Picture Academy Award. Read the full book summary, an in-depth character analysis of Wang Lung, and explanations of important quotes from The Good Earth.
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).
