6/2/2023 0 Comments Pearl buck's the good earth![]() ![]() ![]() In 2004, the book returned to the bestseller list when chosen by the television host Oprah Winfrey for Oprah's Book Club. The novel was included in Life Magazine's list of the 100 outstanding books of 1924–1944. The realistic and sympathetic depiction of the farmer Wang Lung and his wife O-Lan helped prepare Americans of the 1930s to consider Chinese as allies in the coming war with Japan. Buck, who grew up in China as the daughter of American missionaries, wrote the book while living in China and drew on her first-hand observation of Chinese village life. It was the best-selling novel in the United States in both 19, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1932, and was influential in Buck's winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. It is the first book in her House of Earth trilogy, continued in Sons (1932) and A House Divided (1935). Buck published in 1931 that dramatizes family life in a Chinese village in the early 20th century. The Good Earth is a historical fiction novel by Pearl S. ![]()
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