The listing, THE GOOD EARTH by PEARL S. BUCK- winner of the Pulitzer Prize has ended.
used book, complete in fair condition, ISBN 0-671-43342-3, 260 pages` marked within covers-interior pages aged but unmarked. Covers show signs of wear.
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The Good Earth is a novel by Pearl S. Buck published in 1931 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1932. The best-selling novel in the United States in both 1931 and 1932, it was an influential factor in Buck's winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. It is the first book in a trilogy that includes Sons (1932) and A House Divided (1935).
The novel, which dramatizes family life in a Chinese village before World War I, has been a steady favorite ever since. In 2004, the book was returned to the bestseller list when chosen by the television host Oprah Winfrey for Oprah's Book Club.The novel helped prepare Americans of the 1930s to consider Chinese as allies in the coming war with Japan