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The Good Earth is a historical fiction novel by Pearl S. Buck published in 1931 that dramatizes family life in a 20th-century Chinese village in Anhwei. It is the first book in her House of Earth trilogy, continued in Sons (1932) and A House Divided (1935).
The Good Earth, novel by Pearl Buck, published in 1931. The novel, about peasant life in China in the 1920s, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1932. The Good Earth follows the life of Wang Lung from his beginnings as an impoverished peasant to his eventual position as a prosperous.
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The Good Earth (House of Earth #1), Pearl S. Buck. The Good Earth is a novel by Pearl S. Buck published in 1931 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1932. The best-selling novel in the United States in both 1931 and 1932 was an influential factor in Buck's winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938.
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Sep 15, 2004 · Simon and Schuster, Sep 15, 2004 - Fiction - 357 pages. Nobel Laureate Pearl S. Buck’s epic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and Oprah Book Club selection about a vanished China and one...
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Aug 21, 2012 · Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the William Dean Howells Award, The Good Earth was an Oprah’s Book Club choice in 2004. A readers’ favorite for generations, this powerful and beautifully...
Jun 2, 2020 · Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Good Earth and, in 1938, became the first American woman ever awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.
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.
