The Good Earth

A timeless masterpiece from the New York Times–bestselling author, the Pulitzer Prize–winning story of a farmer's journey through China in the 1920s. The Good Earth is Pearl S. Buck's classic 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 are blessed with 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? And can his material success, the bedrock of his life, guarantee anything about his soul? Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the William Dean Howells Award, The Good Earth was an Oprah's Book Club choice in 2004. A readers' favorite for generations, this powerful and beautifully written fable from the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature resonates with universal themes of hope and family unity. "Reading Pearl Buck's writing feels like poetry to me. I just love the quiet rhythm of the words. They evoke the simple beauty of the characters and the harsh mystery of China's ancient culture." —Oprah Winfrey "A comment upon the meaning and tragedy of life as it is lived in any age in any quarter of the globe." —New York Times This ebook features an illustrated biography of Pearl S. Buck including rare images from the author's estate