The Good Earth

Informationen zum Autor Pearl S. Buck was born on June 26, 1892, in Hillsboro, West Virginia. Pearl began to publish stories and essays in the 1920s, in magazines such as  The Nation , The Chinese Recorder , Asia , and  The Atlantic Monthly.  Her first novel,  East Wind, West Wind , was published by the John Day Company in 1930. In 1931, John Day published Pearl’s second novel,  The Good Earth.  This became the bestselling book of both 1931 and 1932, won the Pulitzer Prize and the Howells Medal in 1935, and would be adapted as a major MGM film in 1937. In 1938, less than a decade after her first book had appeared, Pearl won the Nobel Prize in literature, the first American woman to do so. By the time of her death in 1973, Pearl had published more than seventy books: novels, collections of stories, biography and autobiography, poetry, drama, children’s literature, and translations from the Chinese. She is buried at Green Hills Farm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Nick Bertozzi has written and drawn many comics over the years, including  The Salon , Lewis & Clark , and the  New York Times  bestselling  Shackleton: Antarctic Odyssey . He’s also written the upcoming  Becoming Andy Warhol.  Bertozzi has won multiple Harvey and Eisner awards, the highest honors in comics. He lives in Queens, New York, with his wife and daughters. Klappentext Buck's Pulitzer-winning classic about the highs and lows of Chinese villagers before World War One is brought to life in this evocative graphic novel adaptation from Nick Bertozzi, doing delicate artistic justice to the story of honest farmer Wang Lang and his selfless wife O-Lan attempting to navigate the tumultuous twenties. Zusammenfassung Synopsis coming soon.......

Product details

• Authors: Pearl S. Buck, Pearl S./ Bertozzi Buck, Buck Pearl S.
• Assisted by: Nick Bertozzi (Editor)
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781501132773
• ISBN: 978-1-5011-3277-3
• No. of pages: 144
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; Historical fiction, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Adaptations, Graphic Novels: Literary & Memoirs, Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Literary adaptations, American style / tradition comic books, Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Historical, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Historical Fiction / General