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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.
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The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck
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- Título
- The Good Earth
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Pearl S. Buck
- Editorial
- Franklin
- Formato
- Tapa dura
- Serie
- La Casa de la Tierra
- Etiquetas
- Ficción, Novelas históricas, Familia, Mujeres, Guerras, Novelas sociales, Adaptada al cine, Empleo, Campo
- Primera publicación
- 1931
- Título original
- The Good Earth
- Calificación
- 4 de 5
- Descripción
- 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.