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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 to beg on the city streets. It seems that all is lost, until O-lan's desperate will to survive returns them home with undreamt of wealth. But they have betrayed the earth from which true wealth springs, and the family's money breeds only mistrust, deception - and heartbreak for the woman who had saved them. The Good Earthis a riveting family saga and story of female sacrifice - a classic of twentieth-century literature.
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The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck
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- Released
- 2016
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- Title
- The Good Earth
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Pearl S. Buck
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster UK
- Released
- 2016
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 357
- ISBN10
- 1471147436
- ISBN13
- 9781471147432
- Series
- House of Earth
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Family, Women, Wars, Literary Fiction, Adapted for Film, Employment, Countryside
- First published
- 1931
- Original title
- The Good Earth
- Rating
- 4 out of 5
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- 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 to beg on the city streets. It seems that all is lost, until O-lan's desperate will to survive returns them home with undreamt of wealth. But they have betrayed the earth from which true wealth springs, and the family's money breeds only mistrust, deception - and heartbreak for the woman who had saved them. The Good Earthis a riveting family saga and story of female sacrifice - a classic of twentieth-century literature.