While struggling against the challenges of poverty, famine, natural disasters, and war, they proceed to build a family. After their unceremonious introduction, Wang Lung and his new wife, O-Lan, return to the land his family has worked for generations. A slave of this wealthy household has been promised to him in a prearranged marriage. It is Wang Lung’s wedding day, and he has come to claim his bride. One day he ventures into the nearest town to call at the door of the Hwang family, the richest landowners in the region. She is buried at Green Hills Farm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.In an earthen house in a rural Chinese village lives a poor farmer. 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. 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.
This became the bestselling book of both 19, won the Pulitzer Prize and the Howells Medal in 1935, and would be adapted as a major MGM film in 1937. In 1931, John Day published Pearl’s second novel, The Good Earth. Her first novel, East Wind, West Wind, was published by the John Day Company in 1930.
Pearl began to publish stories and essays in the 1920s, in magazines such as The Nation, The Chinese Recorder, Asia, and The Atlantic Monthly.
Buck was born on June 26, 1892, in Hillsboro, West Virginia. Her brilliant novel-beloved by millions of readers-is a universal tale of an ordinary family caught in the tide of history. Buck traces the whole cycle of life: its terrors, its passions, its ambitions and rewards. This moving, classic story of the honest farmer Wang Lung and his selfless wife O-Lan is must reading for those who would fully appreciate the sweeping changes that have occurred in the lives of the Chinese people during the last century. Buck paints an indelible portrait of China in the 1920s, when the last emperor reigned and the vast political and social upheavals of the twentieth century were but distant rumblings. Though more than seventy years have passed since this remarkable novel won the Pulitzer Prize, it has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics.
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