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. Wang soon finds himself the target of jealousy, and as good harvests come and go, so does the social order. But success brings with it a new set of problems. With luck and hard work, the couple’s fortunes improve over the years: They have 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. The Good Earth is Buck’s classic story of Wang Lung, a Chinese peasant farmer, and his wife, O-lan, a former slave. She died in Vermont.The Pulitzer Prize–winning, New York Times–bestselling novel about a peasant farmer and his family in early twentieth-century China. For her body of work, Buck was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938, the first American woman to have done so. In addition to her highly acclaimed novels, Buck wrote two memoirs and biographies of both of her parents. Throughout her life she worked in support of civil and women’s rights, and established Welcome House, the first international, interracial adoption agency. In 1934, civil unrest in China forced Buck back to the United States. Born in Hillsboro, West Virginia, Buck was the daughter of missionaries and spent much of the first half of her life in China, where many of her books are set. Her classic novel The Good Earth (1931) was awarded a Pulitzer Prize and William Dean Howells Medal. Buck) was a bestselling and Nobel Prize–winning author. For her body of work, Buck was awarded the Nobel Pr Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck Walsh (Pearl S.

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