The good earth / Pearl S. Buck.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780743272933 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0743272935 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9781435290884 (Paw Prints)
- ISBN: 1435290887 (Paw Prints)
- Physical Description: 357, [2] p. ; 21 cm.
- Edition: Washington Square Press trade pbk. ed.
- Publisher: New York : Washington Square Press, 2004.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "September 2004"--T.p. verso. "Featuring a WSP reading group guide"--Cover. "Oprah's book club"--Cover of some printings. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 8 books (357 p. ; 21 cm.) -- Content list -- List of additional resources -- Sign-up sheet -- Book kit policy & suggestions for use of kit. |
Summary, etc.: | Pearl S. Buck's epic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a China that was -- now in a Contemporary Classics edition. Though more than sixty years have passed since this remarkable novel won the Pulitzer Prize, it has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics. "I can only write what I know, and I know nothing but China, having always lived there," wrote Pearl Buck. In The Good Earth she presents a graphic view of a China when the last emperor reigned and the vast political and social upheavals of the twentieth century were but distant rumblings for the ordinary people. This moving, classic story of the honest farmer Wang Lung and his selfless wife O-lan is must reading for those who would fully appreciate the sweeping changes that have occurred in the lives of the Chinese people during this century. Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck traces the whole cycle of life: its terrors, its passions, its ambitions and rewards. Her brilliant novel -- beloved by millions of readers -- is a universal tale of the destiny of man. |
Awards Note: | Pulitzer Prize, Novel, 1932. |
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Subject: | Farmers' spouses > Fiction. Married women > China > Fiction. Farm life > Fiction. China > Fiction. China > History > 1928-1937 > Fiction. China > Social life and customs > Fiction. |
Genre: | Domestic fiction. Historical fiction. |
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Available copies
- 41 of 42 copies available at Bibliomation.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 42 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Babcock Library - Ashford | F Buc (Text) | 33110143456596 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Bentley Memorial Library - Bolton | PBK FIC BUC (Text) | 33160103985142 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Bethel Public Library | F BUCK (Text) | 34030112730962 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Black Rock Branch - Bridgeport | FIC BUCK (Text) | 34000076140409 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Booth & Dimock Library - Coventry | AF BUC (Text) | 33260000434358 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Brookfield Library | F/BUCK (Text) | 34029145289087 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Chester Public Library | BUC (Text) | 33210000503348 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Derby Neck Library | CLASSICS BUC (Text) | 34046150755281 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Derby Neck Library | FIC BUC (Text) | 34046106514576 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Derby Public Library | FIC BUC (Text) | 34047094034528 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Author Notes
The Good Earth
Pearl S. Buck, June 26, 1892 - March 6, 1973 Pearl Sydenstricker Buck was an American author, best know for her novels about China. Buck was born on June 26, 1892, in Hillsboro, West Virginia, but as the daughter of Presbyterian missionaries she was taken to China in infancy. She received her early education in Shanghai, but returned to the United States to attend college, and graduated from Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Virginia in 1914. Buck became a university teacher there and married John Lossing Buck, an agricultural economist, in 1917. Buck and her husband both taught in China, and she published magazine articles about life there. Her first novel East Wind, West Wind was published in 1930. Buck achieved international success with The Good Earth, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. This story of a Chinese peasant family's struggle for survival was later made into a MGM film. Buck resigned from the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions after publishing an article that was critical of missionaries. She returned to the United States because of political unrest in China. Buck's novels during this period include Sons, A House Divided, and The Mother. She also wrote biographies of her father (Fighting Angel) and her mother (The Exile). She won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. During her career, Buck published over 70 books: novels, nonfiction, story collections, children's books, and translations from the Chinese. She also wrote under the pseudonym John Sedges. In the United States, Buck was active in the civil rights and women's rights movements. In 1942 she founded the East and West Association to promote understanding between Asia and the West. In 1949, Buck established Welcome House, the first international interracial adoption agency. In 1964, she established the Pearl S. Buck foundation to sponsor support for Amerasian children who were not considered adoptable. Pearl Buck died in Danbury, Vermont, on March 6, 1973. (Bowker Author Biography)