The Good Ea rth by Pearl S. Buck
\nNobel Lau reate Pearl S. Buck&rsquo\;s epic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and Oprah B ook Club selection about a vanished China and one family&rsquo\;s shifting fortunes.
\nThough more than seventy years have passed since this r emarkable novel won the Pulitzer Prize\, it has retained its popularity an d become one of the great modern classics. In \;The Good Earth \;Pearl S. Buck paints an indelible portrait of China in the 1920s\, when the last emperor reigned and the vast political and social upheavals of the twentieth century were but distant rumblings. This moving\, classi c 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 ha ve occurred in the lives of the Chinese people during the last century.
\nNobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck traces the whole cycle of life: its terrors\, its passions\, its ambitions and rewards. Her brilliant novel&m dash\;beloved by millions of readers&mdash\;is a universal tale of an ordi nary family caught in the tide of history.
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