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The Good Earth
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Open Road Media 2012
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The Pulitzer Prize–winning, New York Times–bestselling novel about a peasant farmer and his family in early twentieth-century China.
The Good Earth is Buck’s classic story of Wang Lung, a Chinese peasant farmer, and his wife, O-lan, a former slave. With luck and hard work, the couple’s fortunes improve over the years: They have sons, and save steadily until one day they can afford to buy property in the House of Wang—the very house in which O-lan used to work. But success brings with it a new set of problems. Wang soon finds himself the target of jealousy, and as good harvests come and go, so does the social order. Will Wang’s family cherish the estate after he’s gone? And can his material success, the bedrock of his life, guarantee anything about his soul? Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the William Dean Howells Award, The Good Earth was an Oprah’s Book Club choice in 2004. A readers’ favorite for generations, this powerful and beautifully written fable resonates with universal themes of hope and family unity. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Pearl S. Buck including rare images from the author’s estate.
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Street Date:
08/21/2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781453263563
ASIN:
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Accelerated Reader:
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Level 6.8, 19 Points
Lexile measure:
1530
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Pearl S. Buck. (2012). The Good Earth. Open Road Media.

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Pearl S. Buck. 2012. The Good Earth. Open Road Media.

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Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth. Open Road Media, 2012.

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Pearl S. Buck. The Good Earth. Open Road Media, 2012.

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