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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, the Pulitzer Prize winning book from Nobel Prize winning author Pearl S. Buck is an epic family saga that explores the power of the land and humankinds connection to it. Following Wang Lung from his youth on towards his twilight years, we see how ‘ It was true that all their lives depended upon the earth .’
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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.
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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A drama romance film based on the novel by Pearl S. Buck, starring Paul Muni and Luise Rainer as Wang and O-Lan, a married couple in China. The film depicts their struggles, joys and challenges as they face famine, war, poverty and social change.
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Sep 15, 2004 · 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.
Sep 15, 2004 · 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.
