The Good Earth

by Pearl S. Buck
List(s):"Carp 500"
"Racine Library List"
Category: "Fiction - General"
Pages:261
Year of Publication:1931
Date Read:10/12/1995
Notes:The Good Earth follows the life of Wang Lung, from his beginnings as an impoverished peasant to his eventual position as a prosperous landowner. He is aided immeasurably by his equally humble wife, O-Lan, with whom he shares a devotion to the land, to duty and to survival. Buck combines descriptions of marriage, parenthood and complex human emotions with depictions of Chinese reverence for the land and for a specific way of life.

COMMENTS — Pearl S. Buck was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1932 for The Good Earth.
My Rating: 5

Reviews for The Good Earth

Review - Good Earth, The

Fairly interesting as an account of life in China, but I didn't like ANY of the characters, and didn't care what happened to them. The attempt to duplicate the patterns of Chinese speech in English was just annoying.

Reviewed by Roger on 2003-07-20 08:49:24

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