The Good Earth

The Good Earth
ISBN-10
0895774135
ISBN-13
9780895774132
Series
The Good Earth
Pages
296
Language
English
Published
1992
Publisher
Reader's Digest Association
Author
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

Description

Wang Lang, a simple peasant farmer, takes as a wife a battered slave girl who becomes an indomitable, loyal woman. Working the land together, they prosper and increase their holdings, yet Wang eventually betrays his family and neglects the earth he had worshipped.

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