Pearl S. Buck’s timeless masterpiece, the Pulitzer Prize–winning story of a farmer’s journey through China in the 1920s
The Good Earth is Buck’s classic story of Wang Lung, a Chinese peasant farmer, and his wife, O-lan, a former slave. With luck and hard work, the couple’s fortunes improve over the years: They are blessed with sons, and save steadily until one day they can afford to buy property … they can afford to buy property in the House of Wang—the very house in which O-lan used to work. But success brings with it a new set of problems. Wang soon finds himself the target of jealousy, and as good harvests come and go, so does the social order. Will Wang’s family cherish the estate after he’s gone? And can his material success, the bedrock of his life, guarantee anything about his soul?
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 beautifully written fable resonates with universal themes of hope and family unity.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Pearl S. Buck including rare images from the author’s estate.
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I READ THIS BOOK ABOUT 70 SOME ODD YEARS AGO.. I STILL REMEMBER PARTS OF IT.
A classic! Everyone should read it to get a taste of China’s history.
Read it years ago, but it still remains in my memory! Not an easy read, but worth the effort. Should always remain a classic! Very good.
One of my favorite books! Read it in high school 50+ years ago) and the-read it recently. I can not remember ever re-reading a book!
Just a wonderful story.
Pearl S. Buck never disappoints.
From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Set in historical China. Part of a trilogy. Well worth the read.
I could say I grew up with this book. I have read it several times, at various stages of my life, and always find it absorbing. Highly recommended!
Wonderful boob, if you read only one of Bucks books, this is the on to read!
Excellent history
I LOVED this book! Little wonder it’s a classic!
so boring and depressing
I know its a classic & most people love it but it couldnt keep my interest
An amazing classic. No wonder it’s still celebrated.
An American classic that should be on everyone’s reading list.
Pearl Buck immerses you into China and its historical culture.
I have seen “The Good Earth” in the movies. I also have read the book, I think, twice. I did have the luck to read it with the Oprah Book Club. Pearl Buck always writes authentically. This is the joy of picking up any one of her novels.
A true classic. I read it in my teens and then again many years later. Thoroughly engrossing, telling of a different time and place.
loved it.
Interesting but very dated (and not surprised by this).