The Good Earth This tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China The humble Wang Lung glories in the soil he works nurturing the land as it nurtures him and his family Nearby th

This tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China The humble Wang Lung glories in the soil he works, nurturing the land as it nurtures him and his family Nearby, the nobles of the House of Hwang consider themselves above the land and its workers but they will soon meet their own downfall.Hard times come upon Wang Lung and his family wThis tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China The humble Wang Lung glories in the soil he works, nurturing the land as it nurtures him and his family Nearby, the nobles of the House of Hwang consider themselves above the land and its workers but they will soon meet their own downfall.Hard times come upon Wang Lung and his family when flood and drought force them to seek work in the city The working people riot, breaking into the homes of the rich and forcing them to flee When Wang Lung shows mercy to one noble and is rewarded, he begins to rise in the world, even as the House of Hwang falls.
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Pearl Sydenstricker Buck was a bestselling and Nobel Prize winning author Her classic novel The Good Earth 1931 was awarded a Pulitzer Prize and William Dean Howells Medal 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 In 1934, civil unrest in China forced Buck back to the United States Throughout her life she worked in support of civil and women s rights, and established Welcome House, the first international, interracial adoption agency In addition to her highly acclaimed novels, Buck wrote two memoirs and biographies of both of her parents For her body of work, Buck was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938, the first American woman to have done so She died in Vermont.