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The Good Earth. Pearl S. Buck. Pocket Books, 2005 - China - 357 pages. 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 ...
The Good Earth gives an accurate and well-informed depiction of traditional Chinese culture in the early twentieth century. About Pearl S. Buck The daughter of Absalom and Caroline Sydenstricker, Pearl Buck was born on June 26, 1892, in Hillsboro, West Virginia, while her parents were on leave from their missionary duties in China.
The Good Earth, published in 1931, is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning American author Pearl S. Buck. It explores the life of a peasant farmer named Wang Lung in early 20th century China. As he rises from destitution to prosperity, the story explores themes of wealth, power, and the connection between humans and the land. The Good Earth was ...
The Good Earth. DIVPearl S. Buck (1892–1973) was a bestselling and Nobel Prize–winning author. Her classic novel The Good Earth (1931) was awarded a Pulitzer Prize and William Dean Howells Medal. Born in Hillsboro, West Virginia, Buck was the daughter of missionaries and spent much of the first half of her life in China, where many of her ...
The Good Earth is considered an epic, telling the ups and downs of Wang Lung, but it is O-lan who is the driving force for his rise to prosperity and higher social status. As if the events discussed thus far are not enough to suggest O-lan's importance, Buck sets up a contrast in Wang Lung's family between the time when he works with O-lan and the time when he turns away from her.
Inspired by a Pearl S. Buck novel, this inspiring drama follows the many ups and downs in the lives of Chinese farmers Wang Lung (Paul Muni) and O-Lan (Luise Rainer). Though the couple initially ...
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Subscribe for $3 a Month. Plot Summary. On his wedding day, 20-year-old Wang Lung leaves the small farm where he lives with his widowed father and walks to the nearby village to meet his bride for the first time. Mistress Hwang has arranged the marriage, selling one of her kitchen maids, O-lan, to Wang Lung’s father.
