A readers’ favorite for generations, this powerful and beautifully written fable resonates with universal themes of hope and family unity. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the William Dean Howells Award, The Good Earth was an Oprah’s Book Club choice in 2004. Wang Lung is a rice farmer who gains all his wealth through the.
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? Buck shows her readers the many faces of Wang Lung in her book, The Good Earth. Wang soon finds himself the target of jealousy, and as good harvests come and go, so does the social order. But success brings with it a new set of problems. 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 in the House of Wang-the very house in which O-lan used to work. The Good Earth is Buck’s classic story of Wang Lung, a Chinese peasant farmer, and his wife, O-lan, a former slave. Buck’s timeless masterpiece, the Pulitzer Prize–winning story of a farmer’s journey through China in the 1920s
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