- China, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Social life and customs, History
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.
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- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Pearl S. Buck
- First published
- 1960
- Pages
- 316
- Publisher
- Li ming shu ju, Willard Junior High School, J. Day Co.
- Editions
- 169
- Language
- und, pan, mar, vie
- ISBN
- 9780195854596
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“It was Wang Lung's marriage day.”
Pearl S. Buck had always lived in China except for the time she spent in the United States when she was being educated. She studied at Randolph-Macon College and at Cornell University. She taught at the University of Nanking and at the Government University in Nanking under two national regimes. She lived in Nanking during the 1930's. *The Good Earth* was Mrs. Buck's second published novel. *East Wind: West Wind* appeared under the John Day imprint in 1930. She contributed articles and stories to various magazines, among them *The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation*, and *Asia*.
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