The Good Earth
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Condition: Very Good. No dust jacket — decorative cloth/board binding in very good condition with gilt embossed lettering and Chinese characters on the front cover. The red hardcover binding shows minimal wear. Spine intact. No visible damage, tears, or markings noted from the image.
A cornerstone of twentieth-century American literature, The Good Earth is a sweeping historical novel set in rural China in the years before the Communist Revolution. It chronicles the life of Wang Lung, a poor farmer whose love of the land drives him from peasant obscurity to wealth and power, tracing the full arc of his fortunes alongside his stoic wife, O-lan. Pearl S. Buck writes with quiet authority and profound empathy, presenting an intimate portrait of Chinese peasant life — its cycles of hardship, ambition, family loyalty, and moral compromise — that earned her the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938. The novel argues powerfully that humanity's deepest ties are to the earth itself, and that the severing of those ties brings inevitable ruin. Rich in cultural detail and moral weight, The Good Earth remains an essential and timeless work of world literature.
Author: Pearl S. Buck
Format: Hardback
Genre: Historical fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Very Good. No dust jacket — decorative cloth/board binding in very good condition with gilt embossed lettering and Chinese characters on the front cover. The red hardcover binding shows minimal wear. Spine intact. No visible damage, tears, or markings noted from the image.
A cornerstone of twentieth-century American literature, The Good Earth is a sweeping historical novel set in rural China in the years before the Communist Revolution. It chronicles the life of Wang Lung, a poor farmer whose love of the land drives him from peasant obscurity to wealth and power, tracing the full arc of his fortunes alongside his stoic wife, O-lan. Pearl S. Buck writes with quiet authority and profound empathy, presenting an intimate portrait of Chinese peasant life — its cycles of hardship, ambition, family loyalty, and moral compromise — that earned her the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938. The novel argues powerfully that humanity's deepest ties are to the earth itself, and that the severing of those ties brings inevitable ruin. Rich in cultural detail and moral weight, The Good Earth remains an essential and timeless work of world literature.