The Good Earth

by PearlS.Buck (Author)

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  Paperback
  2005

  $4.18

  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 EARTH is a riveting family saga and story of female sacrifice - a classic of twentieth-century literature.

• Used

  Paperback
  1999

  $6.03

  A Chinese peasant overcomes the forces of nature and the frailties of human nature to become a wealthy landowner.