| Record Number |
738694 |
| ISBN |
9781471151873 (paperback) |
| Author |
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 author. |
| Title |
The good earth : an American classic / Pearl S. Buck. |
| Publisher/Date |
London : Simon & Schuster, 2016. |
| ©1958 |
| Pagination etc. |
357 pages ; 20 cm |
| Summary Note |
When O-lan, a servant girl, marries the peasant Wang Lung, she toils tirelessly through four pregnancies for their family's survival. Reward at first is meagre, but there is sustenance in the land - until the famine comes. Half-starved, the family joins thousands of peasants to beg on the city streets. It seems that all is lost, until O-lan's desperate will to survive returns them home with undreamt of wealth. But they have betrayed the earth from which true wealth springs, and the family's money breeds only mistrust, deception - and heartbreak for the woman who had saved them. The Good Earthis a riveting family saga and story of female sacrifice - a classic of twentieth-century literature. |
| Subject |
Married women -- China -- Fiction |
| China -- History -- 1928-1937 -- Fiction |
| China -- Social life and customs -- Fiction |
| Shelf Location |
F BUCK |
