Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck

82 pages

Published June 5, 2008 by Sparknotes.

ISBN:
978-1-4114-0733-6
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76 p. ; 21 cm

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(This review is crossposted from my blog here: daariga.wordpress.com/2016/10/02/the-good-earth/)

My
favorite textbooks in middle and high school were those of the English and Kannada languages. Many of the chapters were abridged excerpts from the best literature on the planet. And what a rich bunch of stories and poems those were! One chapter from my English textbook was so evocative that I had tears in my eyes when it was studied and whenever I read it later. It had been an excerpt from The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck. That chapter, the book title and the author all came rolling back from childhood memories recently and I simply had to give the book a shot.

The protagonist is Wang Lung, a honest and hard working illiterate farmer living in the North of China in the decades before the Communist Revolution. His is a hard life spent struggling against …