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The Good Earth  
Author: Pearl S. Buck
ISBN: 0881032247
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
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Review
Boston Transcript One need never have lived in China or know anything about the Chinese to understand it or respond to its appeal.




The Good Earth

ANNOTATION

This great modern classic depicts life in China at a time before the vast political and social upheavals transformed an essentially agrarian country into a world power. Nobel Prize-winner Pearl S. Buck traces the whole cycle of life—its terrors, its passions, its ambitions, and its rewards.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Wang Lung, rising from humble Chinese farmer to wealthy landowner, gloried in the soil he worked. He held it above his family, even above his gods. But soon, between Wang Lung and the kindly soil that sustained him, came flood and drought, pestilence and revolution....

Through this one Chinese peasant and his children, Nobel Prize-winner Pearl S. Buck traces the whole cycle of life, its terrors, its passion, its persistent ambitions and its rewards. Her brilliant novel—beloved by millions of readers throughout the world—is a universal tale of the destiny of men.

FROM THE CRITICS

Bookman

To read this story of Wang Lung is to be slowly and deeply purified; and when the last page is finished it is as if some significant part of one's own days were over.

Saturday Review

A beautiful, beautiful book. At last we read, in the pages of a novel, of the real people of China.

New York Times Book Review

The Good Earth has style, power, coherence and a pervasive sense of dramatic reality.

AudioFile - Sharon Grover

Pearl Buck's compelling saga of pre-revolutionary China told from the perspective of the farmer, Wang Lung, is brought to life by the quiet intensity of George Guidall's reading. The hope and desperation of the ordinary peasants who lived during the Manchu Dynasty, Wang Lung's fight to save his family and his land, and the ties that bind them so closely to the earth are all made clear in a fleeting twelve and a half hours of drama, superbly rendered by Guidall's restrained use of pitch and pacing. A wonderful addition to recorded literature. S.G. ￯﾿ᄑAudioFile, Portland, Maine

     



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