![]() For some reason or the other, though, I managed to avoid reading it during my grade school years. ![]() The Good Earth was assigned reading for most of my friends somewhere in middle school or early high school, and I only ever heard them speak of it with dread, although that was all I heard them say about any of the books they had to read. 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 occurred in the lives of the Chinese people during the twentieth century. 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. “I can only write what I know, and I know nothing but China, having always lived there,” writes Pearl Buck. ![]() 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. ![]()
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