The Good Earth.

BUCK, Pearl S..

Item Number: 5711

New York: The John Day Company, 1932.

First edition, later printing, published a year later in 1932. Octavo, original cloth. Signed and dated by Pearl S. Buck in 1972. A note written in pencil, cites that this book was signed at Rutland Hospital. Buck in her later years lived in Danby, Vermont and passed away there in 1973.

Over eighty years have passed since The Good Earth 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 want to fully appreciate the sweeping changes that have occurred in the lives of the Chinese people during this century.