The Good Earth

Author: Pearl S. Buck

Publisher: Washington Square Press; Export edition (2013/1/1)

簡裝: 448 pages

Language: 英語

ISBN: 147673304X

EAN: 9781476733043

Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.4 x 2.6 cm

內容簡介

When O-lan, a servant girl, marries the peasant Wang Lung, she toils tirelessly through four pregnancies for their family's survival. Reward at first is meagre, but there is sustenance in the land - until the famine comes.

Half-starved, the family joins thousands of peasants to beg on the city streets. It seems that all is lost, until O-lan's desperate will to survive returns them home with undreamt of wealth. But they have betrayed the earth from which true wealth springs, and the family's money breeds only mistrust, deception - and heartbreak for the woman who had saved them.

THE GOOD EARTH is a riveting family saga and story of female sacrifice - a classic of twentieth-century literature.

媒體推薦

The New York Times A comment upon the meaning and tragedy of life as it is lived in any age in any quarter of the globe.Pittsburgh Post Gazette One of the most important and revealing novels of our time.Boston Transcript One need never have lived in China or know anything about the Chinese to understand it or respond to its appeal.

作者簡介

Pearl S. Buck was born on June 26, 1892, in Hillsboro, West Virginia.Pearl began to publish stories and essays in the 1920s, in magazines such asThe Nation, The Chinese Recorder, Asia,andThe Atlantic Monthly.Her first novel,East Wind, West Wind,was published by the John Day Company in 1930. John Day's publisher, Richard Walsh, would eventually become Pearl's second husband, in 1935, after both received divorces.

In 1931, John Day published Pearl's second novel,The Good Earth.This became the bestselling book of both 1931 and 1932, won the Pulitzer Prize and the Howells Medal in 1935, and would be adapted as a major MGM film in 1937.

In 1938, less than a decade after her first book had appeared, Pearl won the Nobel Prize in literature, the first American woman to do so. By the time of her death in 1973, Pearl had published more than seventy books: novels, collections of stories, biography and autobiography, poetry, drama, children's literature, and translations from the Chinese. She is buried at Green Hills Farm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.