The Good Earth

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

Product details

• Authors: Pearl S Buck, Pearl S. Buck, Buck Pearl S.
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 14.01.2016
• EAN: 9781471151873
• ISBN: 978-1-4711-5187-3
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 25 mm
• Series: AN AMERICAN CLASSIC
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary