The Good Earth
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Written by Pearl S. Buck.
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Pearl S. Buck's epic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a China that was -- now in a Contemporary Classics edition.
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.
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the_storygirl did not give this book a rating.
What can be said about a classic like The Good Earth? For a non-genius like me, it's not much. For all its simplistic language, I thought it was very well written and well-paced. It probably deserves a better rating than I have given it, but I simply didn't like it much. It was good for this: it showed me how much I really have been given. And not just monetarily--also intellectually and spiritually. At the same time, I hated almost everyone in it for that very poverty, a poverty of ignorance that it is almost impossible to draw people from.
Cheryle thinks this book is Excellent.
Pearl S. Buck, having been raised in China (her parents were missionaries), gives us all a glimpse of peasant Chinese life at the time just before the Boxer Rebellion. This classic book is a wonderful view of old China most Europeans/Americans will never have!
A rich tapestry, woven page by page.