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Washington Square Pr. Used - Good. Good condition. Owner's name on endpage.
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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 line
In The Good Earth (1931), Pearl Buck tells a timeless story about a farmer struggling to eke out a living from the earth.
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.
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
- Author Pearl S. Buck
- Binding Mass Market Paperbound
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Washington Square Press, New York, NY, USA
- Date July 1981
- ISBN 9780671504373 / 0671504371
- Weight 0.36 lbs (0.16 kg)
- Reading level 1530
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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New York, NY: Washington Square Press, 1963. First Edition, First Printing . Paperback. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/VG, unread w/margin discoloration & trace humidity stains to lower corner of front pages. Illustrated softcover/VG; sound w/rubs to front. Published w/o ISBN; ISBN assigned subsequently. 1931, 2nd novel, winner of the 1932 Pulitzer, translated to some 30 languages, made into a Broadway play and adapted to film, from Pearl S. Buck (1892 - 1933) , who, a child of missionaries, grew up in China. An initimate & movinging account of how a poor Anhwrei Chinese peasant farmer Wang Lung improves his standing. Set in time after the fall of the Ching Dynasty, the 1911 establishment of the Republic of China and pre-World War I, when dazzling visions of railroad construction & modernization held sway. Wang Lung, whose children begs on the streetss as he pulls a rickshaw, does rise in social stature to have servants and concubines. In the sequels, Sons and The House Divided,…
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