|a Book Club Kits |z Wilkinson Public Library. |a China |x History |y 1928-1937 |0 |v Fiction. Buck Official Publisher Page Simon & Schuster About The Book About The Author Product Details Related Articles The Good Earth By Pearl S. |a Married women |0 |z China |0 |v Fiction. |a Wilkinson Public Library's kit of 10 books checks out as one unit to book clubs. |a "Featuring a reading group guide" Oprah's Book Club-Cover. |a New York : |b Washington Square Press, |c 1999. |a The good earth book club kit/ |c Pearl S. Her brilliant novel - beloved by millions of readers - is a universal tale of the destiny of man. Buck traces the whole cycle of life: its terrors, its passions, its ambitions and rewards. 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 this century. In The Good Earth she presents a graphic view of a China when the last emperor reigned and the vast political and social upheavals of the twentieth century were but distant rumblings for the ordinary people. "I can only write what I know, and I know nothing but China, having always lived there," wrote Pearl Buck.
Though more than sixty years have passed since this remarkable novel won the Pulitzer Prize, it has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics. Buck's epic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a China that was - now in a Contemporary Classics edition.
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