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  • I liked it and was challenged by it, but it will not be on my favorites list. For reading these classics I think I enjoy them more or actually get through them when I listen to them.The main character Wang Lung was very frustrating to me. I wanted to shake him and say "You have such a good wife and ... Continue

    I liked it and was challenged by it, but it will not be on my favorites list. For reading these classics I think I enjoy them more or actually get through them when I listen to them.The main character Wang Lung was very frustrating to me. I wanted to shake him and say "You have such a good wife and family, why are you treating her this way?" It was interesting reading this novel after having my East Asian Civilizations class this summer.

    

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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.

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