The Good Earth is a novel by Pearl S. Buck, first published in 1931, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1932. It is the first book in a trilogy that includes the books Sons (1932) and A House Divided (1935).
A Chinese peasant overcomes the forces of nature and the frailties of human nature to become a wealthy landowner.
Book Description
Pearl S. Buck's epic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a China that was -- now in a Contemporary Classics edition.
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. "I can only write what I know, and I know nothing but China, having always lived there," wrote Pearl Buck. 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. 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 have occurred in the lives of the Chinese people during this century.
Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck traces the whole cycle of life: its terrors, its passions, its ambitions and rewards. Her brilliant novel -- beloved by millions of readers -- is a universal tale of the destiny of man.
Book Dimension
Height (mm) 210 Width (mm) 136
- 赛珍珠获普利策奖代表作
- 白描手法刻画中国农民史诗
- 土地与人性交织的命运沉浮
- 喜爱乡土文学与历史小说读者
- 希望提升英文阅读能力的学习者
- 关注中西文化差异的探索者
- 注意长难句与倒装句结构
- 体会白描文字中的画面感
- 理解作者旁观者视角的疏离
- 语言质朴但蕴含深厚情感
- 真实呈现旧中国农民生存状态
- 虽非完美但具极高文学价值
本导读基于书籍简介、目录、原文摘录、短评和书评生成，不等同于全文精读。
- "every man has his troubles and I must make shift to live with mine as I can"
- "Spring came in long, warm days scented with blossoming plum and cherry, and the willow trees sprouted their leaves fully and unfolded them"
- "Wang Lung looked east and west. He would have liked to speak out to say in a surly voice of master, "Well, and it is my house and whoever I say may come in, she shall come in, and who are you to ask?" But he could not because of some shame in him when O-lan was there before him, and his shame made h"
- "the young beans lifted their hooded heads from the soil"
- "SPRING SEETHED in the village of huts. Out to the hills and the grave lands those who had begged now could go to dig the small green weeds, dandelions and shepherd's purse that thrust up feeble new leaves, and it was not necessary as it had been to snatch at vegetables here and there. A swarm of rag"
- "It was only one day when he was on the street of the silk markets looking for a passenger that he learned better than he had known, and that there were those who were more foreign than he in this city. He happened on this day to pass by the door of a shop from whence ladies sometimes came after purc"
- "Then she said in a half-whisper, "It is the first time I have had silver money in my hand.""
