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  • The Good Earth

    Pearl S. Buck

    Mass Market Paperback (Pocket Books, Jan. 1, 1981)
    262pages. Poche. broché. Boston Transcript One need never have lived in China or know anything about the Chinese to understand it or respond to its appeal. -Ce texte fait référence à l'édition Broché. The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature 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 landowner. He is aided immeasurably by his equally humble wife, O-Lan, with whom he shares a devotion to the land, to duty, and to survival. Buck combines descriptions of marriage, parenthood, and complex human emotions with depictions of Chinese reverence for the land and for a specific way of life. -Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre. Voir l'ensemble des Descriptions du produit
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  • The Good Earth

    Pearl S. Buck, George Guidall

    Audio Cassette (Recorded Books, LLC, Aug. 16, 1992)
    Set in pre-Revolutionary China, The Good Earth is the poignant story of Wang Lung, a rice farmer whose industry and commitment to the land enable him and his family to prosper. But unexpected drought forces the family south in search of food, and there they suffer the spiritual impoverishment of life in the city. Wang Lung's courageous journey back to his farm is a spiritual affirmation of the values of the land.
  • The Good Earth

    Pearl S. Buck

    Mass Market Paperback (Pocket Books, March 1, 1973)
    Classic Literature
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  • The Good Earth

    Pearl S. Buck

    Hardcover (The Modern Library, Jan. 1, 1933)
    None
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  • The Good Earth

    Pearl S. Buck

    Paperback (Pocket Books, Jan. 1, 1967)
    Fiction, A farmer becomes a wealthy landowner until he came up against nature and politics. A universal tale of the destiny of men.
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  • The Good Earth

    Pearl S. Buck

    Paperback (Washington Square Pr, Aug. 16, 1973)
    Paperback, gd condition,, artwork is clear and bright. First Pocket Books printing: July 1973, 5th printing. 260 pages by Pearl S. Buck. The Good Earth won the Pulitzer Prize, she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. She died in Danby , Vermont: March 6, 1973. Out Of Print.
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  • The Good Earth

    Pearl S. Buck

    Mass Market Paperback (Pocket Books, Inc., Jan. 1, 1939)
    The Good Earth 1967 65TH PRINTING
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  • The Good Earth

    Pearl S. Buck, George Guidall

    Audio Cassette (Borders/Recorded Books, Jan. 1, 1992)
    Audiocassette, in box as shown, seven (7) tapes, all GUARANTEED, box shows some wear & small stains, tapes all VG.
  • The Good Earth

    Pearl S. Buck

    Hardcover (Grosset, Jan. 1, 1936)
    This tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China. The humble Wang Lung glories in the soil he works, nurturing the land as it nurtures him and his family. Nearby, the nobles of the House of Hwang consider themselves above the land and its workers; but they will soon meet their own downfall. Hard times come upon Wang Lung and his family when flood and drought force them to seek work in the city. The working people riot, breaking into the homes of the rich and forcing them to flee. When Wang Lung shows mercy to one noble and is rewarded, he begins to rise in the world, even as the House of Hwang falls
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  • The Good Earth

    Pearl S. Buck, Anthony Heald

    Preloaded Digital Audio Player (Blackstone Pub, Dec. 15, 2008)
    This Pulitzer Prize-winning classic tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China. The humble Wang Lung glories in the soil he works, nurturing the land as it nurtures him and his family. Nearby, the nobles of the House of Hwang consider themselves above the land and its workers; but they will soon meet their own downfall. Hard times come upon Wang Lung and his family when flood and drought force them to seek work in the city. The working people riot, breaking into the homes of the rich and forcing them to flee. When Wang Lung shows mercy to one noble and is rewarded, he begins to rise in the world, even as the House of Hwang falls.
  • The Good Earth

    Pearl S. Buck, Cynthia Brantley Johnson

    Library Binding (San Val, April 1, 2005)
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  • The Good Earth

    Pearl S. Buck

    Paperback (Pocket Books, Aug. 16, 1962)
    Vintage paperback
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