The Good Earth - Softcover

Buck, Pearl S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671510126 ISBN 13: 9780671510121

Publisher: Pocket Classics, 1994

Synopsis

Wang Lung, rising from humble Chinese farmer to wealthy landowner, gloried in the soil he worked. He held it above his family, even above his gods. But soon, between Wang Lung and the kindly soil that sustained him, came flood and drought, pestilence and revolution....

About this title

Review:

"Boston Transcript" One need never have lived in China or know anything about the Chinese to understand it or respond to its appeal.

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pocket Classics
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0671510126
• ISBN 13: 9780671510121
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback