House of Earth (Pearl S. Buck)

Category :  novel (Vintage)

English Original

Format :  hardcover

353 pages

Publisher :  The John Day Company 1963

Dimension :  210x140x20mm

Weight :  1170g

Condition :  good

Dust Jacket Condition :  lost

Book Summary : 

The Good Earth is Buck's classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning 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? The family's story continues in Sons and A House Divided, when the Revolution sweeping through China further unsettles Wang Lung's family in this rich and unforgettable portrait of a family and a country in the throes of widespread national change.