The Good Earth

by Pearl S. Buck

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Good Earth Trilogy (Book 1)

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The Good Earth

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Pulitzer Prize (Novel, 1932)

William Dean Howells Medal (1935)

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0671823493, Paperback)

One of the greatest classics of our time, this is the powerfully moving story of peasant Wang Lung--Of the family he founded that would one day become a powerful dynasty; of the gods he implored, sometimes with humility, sometimes with anger; and, above all, of the earth that sustained him, the land he made to prosper against the ravages of nature and the savage attcks of bandit tribes.

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