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THE GOOD EARTH
Pearl Buck
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THE GOOD EARTH

by Pearl Buck

John Day · 2020

Peak rank

#2

Weeks on list

1

Chart History

#1510151931

1 week on the Hardcover Fiction list, peaking at #2

The timeless Pulitzer Prize–winning masterpiece following a humble farmer’s journey through 1920s China returns with this beautifully repackaged edition that celebrates its nearly ninety years as an American classic. Travel to 1920s China, a time when the last emperor still ruled and the sweeping changes of the twentieth century were distant rumblings, with this timeless, evocative classic tale of the honest farmer Wang Lung and his family as they struggle to survive in the midst of vast political and social upheavals. Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize winner Pearl S. Buck traces the whole cycle of life: its terrors, its passions, its ambitions, and rewards. “A comment upon the meaning and tragedy of life as it is lived in any age in any quarter of the globe” (The New York Times), this brilliant novel—beloved by millions—is a universal tale of an ordinary family caught in the tide of history.

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ISBN-13
9781982147174
ISBN-10
1982147172
Published
2020
Pages
384
Publisher
John Day
Categories
Fiction

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