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Followed by. Sons. 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). It was the best-selling novel in the United States in both 1931 and ...
The Good Earth is a novel by Pearl S. Buck published in 1931 that dramatizes family life in a Chinese village in the early 20th century. It is the first book in a trilogy that includes Sons and A House Divided. It won the Pulitzer Prize and is considered a classic.
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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
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Sep 15, 2004 · by Pearl S. Buck (Author) 4.6 7,925 ratings. Book 1 of 3: The Good Earth Trilogy. See all formats and editions. Nobel Laureate Pearl S. Buck’s epic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and Oprah Book Club selection about a vanished China and one family’s shifting fortunes. Though more than seventy years have passed since this remarkable novel won ...
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The Good Earth. Pearl S. Buck. Simon and Schuster, Sep 15, 2004 - Fiction - 357 pages. Nobel Laureate Pearl S. Buck’s epic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and Oprah Book Club selection about a vanished China and one family’s shifting fortunes. Though more than seventy years have passed since this remarkable novel won the Pulitzer Prize, it has ...
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Aug 21, 2012 · The Good Earth is a Pulitzer Prize winning novel for 1932 and was the best-selling novel for both 1931 and 1932 in the United States. Buck won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938. Buck grew up in China as the child of missionaries and wrote the novel while she lived in China using her firsthand observations of village life.
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Aug 21, 2012 · The Good Earth. Pearl S. Buck. Open Road Media, Aug 21, 2012 - Fiction - 357 pages. The Pulitzer Prize–winning, New York Times–bestselling novel about a peasant farmer and his family in early twentieth-century China.The Good Earth is Buck’s classic story of Wang Lung, a Chinese peasant farmer, and his wife, O-lan, a former slave.
