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The Good Earth (Graphic Adaptation)
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The Good Earth (Graphic Adaptation) Paperback - 2018

by Pearl S. Buck; Adapted by Nick Bertozzi


About this book

The Good Earth is a Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Pearl S. Buck, an American writer who spent the bulk of the first part of her life in China. Set in the Anhui Province where Buck once lived, it chronicles the rise and fall of Wang Lung and his family, portraying a realistic portrait of life in a Chinese Village prior to World War I. While not initially well received by critics, the novel immediately became a bestseller and has since been recognized as one of the most important 20th century works of fiction. It was also notable for its role in preparing the American public to accept the Chinese as allies later during World War II. The novel was followed by two sequels, Sons and A House Divided to complete the House of Earth Trilogy.
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First Edition Identification

First published by John Day in 1931 in brown cloth and a tan dustwrapper with a simple scene of a furrowed field topped by a sun printed in brown ink, the first edition of this understated tome simply states the copyright date with no mention of subsequent printings. The first issue contains the phrase "For the John Day Publishing Company, Inc." on the copyright page, while the second state simply says "John Day Company" and is in fact more rare. There has also been some debate about the presence of either a brown or green topstain as being a point of issue, but that remains inconclusive.

The original typed manuscript, which Buck wrote in 1929 while living in Nanking, was reportedly stolen in 1952 from an exhibit at the American Academy of Arts and Letters. It resurfaced in 2007 at auction and was reclaimed by the FBI. 

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  • Title The Good Earth (Graphic Adaptation)
  • Author Pearl S. Buck; Adapted by Nick Bertozzi
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 144
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Simon & Schuster
  • Date 2018-07-24
  • ISBN 9781501132773 / 1501132776
  • Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 0.4 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 1.02 cm)
  • Reading level 1530
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Asian - General
    • Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
    • Ethnic Orientation: Asian - General
    • Ethnic Orientation: Asian - Chinese
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Pearl S. Buck was born on June 26, 1892, in Hillsboro, West Virginia. Pearl began to publish stories and essays in the 1920s, in magazines such as The Nation, The Chinese Recorder, Asia, and The Atlantic Monthly. Her first novel, East Wind, West Wind, was published by the John Day Company in 1930. In 1931, John Day published Pearl's second novel, The Good Earth. This became the bestselling book of both 1931 and 1932, won the Pulitzer Prize and the Howells Medal in 1935, and would be adapted as a major MGM film in 1937. In 1938, less than a decade after her first book had appeared, Pearl won the Nobel Prize in literature, the first American woman to do so. By the time of her death in 1973, Pearl had published more than seventy books: novels, collections of stories, biography and autobiography, poetry, drama, children's literature, and translations from the Chinese. She is buried at Green Hills Farm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Nick Bertozzi has written and drawn many comics over the years, including The Salon, Lewis & Clark, and the New York Times bestselling Shackleton: Antarctic Odyssey. He's also written the upcoming Becoming Andy Warhol. Bertozzi has won multiple Harvey and Eisner awards, the highest honors in comics. He lives in Queens, New York, with his wife and daughters.
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