ISBN: 0606129472

When O-lan, a servant girl, marries the peasant Wang Lung, she toils tirelessly through four pregnancies for their family's survival. Reward at first is meagre, but there is sustenance in… More...

When O-lan, a servant girl, marries the peasant Wang Lung, she toils tirelessly through four pregnancies for their family's survival. Reward at first is meagre, but there is sustenance in the land - until the famine comes. Half-starved, the family joins thousands of peasants to beg on the city streets. It seems that all is lost, until O-lan's desperate will to survive returns them home with undreamt of wealth. But they have betrayed the earth from which true wealth springs, and the family's money breeds only mistrust, deception - and heartbreak for the woman who had saved them. THE GOOD EARTH is a riveting family saga and story of female sacrifice - a classic of twentieth-century literature. children's,children's books,classics,comics and graphic novels,contemporary,criticism and theory,education and reference,english as a second language,family saga,fiction Comics & Graphic Novels, Turtleback Books<

ISBN: 0606129472

When O-lan, a servant girl, marries the peasant Wang Lung, she toils tirelessly through four pregnancies for their family's survival. Reward at first is meagre, but there is sustenance in… More...

When O-lan, a servant girl, marries the peasant Wang Lung, she toils tirelessly through four pregnancies for their family's survival. Reward at first is meagre, but there is sustenance in the land - until the famine comes. Half-starved, the family joins thousands of peasants to beg on the city streets. It seems that all is lost, until O-lan's desperate will to survive returns them home with undreamt of wealth. But they have betrayed the earth from which true wealth springs, and the family's money breeds only mistrust, deception - and heartbreak for the woman who had saved them. THE GOOD EARTH is a riveting family saga and story of female sacrifice - a classic of twentieth-century literature. classics,contemporary,criticism and theory,education and reference,english as a second language,family saga,fiction,genre fiction,history and criticism,literary Education & Reference, Turtleback Books<

ISBN: 0606129472

Written by a Nobel Prize winner, this novel is set in China early in the 19th century, and won the Pulitzer Prize when it was first published in 1931. It tells of a farmer's constant stru… More...

Written by a Nobel Prize winner, this novel is set in China early in the 19th century, and won the Pulitzer Prize when it was first published in 1931. It tells of a farmer's constant struggle to keep his family alive through famine, destitution, flood and pestilence. classics,contemporary,criticism and theory,education and reference,english as a second language,family saga,fiction,genre fiction,history and criticism,literary Education & Reference, Demco Media<

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