EAN: 9781471151873

AN AMERICAN CLASSIC THE GOOD EARTH - PEARL S ...

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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