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The good earth

Author: Pearl S Buck; Stephanie Reents; Cynthia Johnson
Publisher: New York, NY : Pocket Books, 2005.
Series: Enriched classics series.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : English : 1st Pocket Book pbk. edView all editions and formats
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Set in China, this is a drama about a simple peasant farmer who grows rich with the help of his faithful wife. Tragedy follows as he betrays his family and neglects the earth he had worshiped.
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Genre/Form: Fiction
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Pearl S Buck; Stephanie Reents; Cynthia Johnson
ISBN: 1416500189 9781416500186
OCLC Number: 60038668
Description: xxi, 418 p. ; 17 cm.
Contents: Introduction --
Chronology of Pearl Buck's life and work --
Historical context of the good earth --
Good earth --
Notes --
Interpretive notes --
Critical excerpts --
Questions for discussion --
Suggestions for the interested reader.
Series Title: Enriched classics series.
Responsibility: Pearl S. Buck ; supplementary material written by Stephanie Reents ; series edited by Cynthia Brantley Johnson.

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Set in China, this is a drama about a simple peasant farmer who grows rich with the help of his faithful wife. Tragedy follows as he betrays his family and neglects the earth he had worshiped.

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"The New York Times" A comment upon the meaning and tragedy of life as it is lived in any age in any quarter of the globe.

 
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