Ebook {Epub PDF} The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

The Good Earth is a novel by Pearl S. Buck published in 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.4/5. The good earth. by. Buck, Pearl S; Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), Publication date. Topics. www.doorway.ru Interaction Count: K. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck is by far one of the best novels I have ever read. The story itself is captivating and the prose flowed so easily from chapter to chapter. It was very hard to put this book down. Had I been able I could have easily read it in a few days/5().

The Good Earth. Pearl S. Buck. Simon and Schuster, - Fiction - pages. 14 Reviews. 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. The Good Earth gives an accurate and well-informed depiction of traditional Chinese culture in the early twentieth century. About Pearl S. Buck. The daughter of Absalom and Caroline Sydenstricker, Pearl Buck was born on J, in Hillsboro, West Virginia, while her parents were on leave from their missionary duties in China. Pearl S. Buck's novel The Good Earth examines issues of traditional Chinese culture, feminism and slavery through the life of peasant farmer Wang Lung. The novel begins the day of Lung's wedding to a former slave of the notable and wealthy Hwang family. Buck's exploration of classism is depicted in Lung's impression of his own impoverished state when he travels to the Hwang household.

When her second novel, The Good Earth, was published in , Pearl S. Buck () became famous throughout the world for her moving story of the joys and tragedies of the Chinese peasant farmer Wang Lung and his family. The novel was a best seller in the United States, and it was soon translated into more than thirty foreign languages; it has appeared in Chinese alone in at least seven different translations. In The Good Earth Pearl S. Buck paints an indelible portrait of China in the s, when the last emperor reigned and the vast political and social upheavals of the twentieth century were but distant rumblings. This moving, classic story of the honest farmer Wang Lung and his selfless wife O-Lan is must reading for those who would fully appreciate the sweeping changes that have occurred in the lives of the Chinese people during the last century. The Good Earth is a novel by Pearl S. Buck published in 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.