Products specifications
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Author
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Pearl S. Buck |
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Pub Date
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14/01/2016 |
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Binding
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Paperback / softback |
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Pages
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368 |
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Country
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United Kingdom |
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Dewey
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813.52 |
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GBPPrice
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8.99 |
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 Earthis a riveting family saga and story of female sacrifice - a classic of twentieth-century literature.
