num_pages: 357
description: 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. "I can only write what I know, and I know nothing but China, having always lived there," wrote Pearl Buck. 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. 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.Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck traces the whole cycle of life: its terrors, its passions, its ambitions and rewards. Her brilliant novel—beloved by millions of readers—is a universal tale of the destiny of man.
language: English
title: The Good Earth
titlecomplete: The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
characters: Ching, Wang Lung, Lotus, Cuckoo, Nung En (Elder Son), Nung Wen (Younger Son), O-lan, Pear Blossom
genres: Asia, Historical Fiction, Historical, Novels, School, Literature, Classic Literature, Classics, China, Fiction
ratings_count: 245776
places: China
series: House of Earth
awards: awardedAt: -1199203200000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Novel, awardedAt: -1104508800000
name: William Dean Howells Medal
publisher: Washington Square Press