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The Good Earth is a novel by Pearl S Buck. The novel is set in China in the times when the last emperor was ruling. It is a compelling story of a honest farmer Wang Lung and his selfless wife O Lan. The book recreates the historical period when huge changes occurred in the last century in China and how it affected its people. It paints a picture of the troubled times Wang Lung and his family face when China is at the brink of a revolution. You can be able relate to Wang Lung’s and his wife’s pain, suffering, pride, and a whole other gamut of emotions. The novel explores the myriad of human emotions like passion, greed, and desires, and how they drive a human being to do good or evil. It is about how the survival instinct can make one fight against all difficulties. The novel was published as export edition in the year 2013 by Washington Square Press. It is available in paperback. Key Features: The Good Earth is a classic novel which is sought after even today . It had bagged the Pulitzer award in 1932 and has also been adapted into a movie.
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker was born in 1892 in West Virginia. Her parents were Southern Presbyterian missionaries, most often stationed in China, and from childhood, Pearl spoke both English and Chinese. She returned to China in 1914, and married John Lossing Buck. They immediately moved to Nanhsuchou in rural Anhwei province. In 1931, John Day published Pearl's second novel, The Good Earth. This was the bestselling book of both 1931 and 1932, and won the Pulitzer Prize. In 1938 Pearl won the Nobel Prize in literature, the first American woman to do so. By the time of her death in 1973, Pearl had published more than seventy books: novels, collections of stories, biography and autobiography, poetry, drama, children's literature, and translations from the Chinese.
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