House of Earth: The Good Earth; Sons; A House DividedA portrayal of China in the midst of revolution. This trilogy starts with The Good Earth, a story of the honest farmer Wang Lung and his selfless wife O-lan and their struggles to survive the harsh realities of life in China during the reign of the last emperor. The vast political and social upheavals of the twentieth century were but distant rumblings for the ordinary people. Sons, the second in the trilogy, is a starkly real tale of sons rising against their honored fathers and tells of the bitter struggle to the death between the old and the new in China. Revolutions sweep the nation, leaving destruction and death in their wake, yet also promising emancipation to China's oppressed millions who are groping for a way to survive in a modern age. A House Divided, the third volume of the trilogy, sees Wang Yuan caught between the opposing ideas of different generations. After six years abroad, Yuan returns to China in the middle of a peasant uprising. His cousin is a captain in the revolutionary army, his sister has scandalized the family by her premarital pregnancy, and his warlord father continues to cling to his traditional ideals. It is through Yuan's efforts that a kind of peace is restored to the family. |
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Page 219
Yet for all their pleasure in themselves, Yuan could not but see how the very
words they used were foreign words, and how even when they spoke their own
tongues they must add words of a foreign sort to supply some idea they had for
which ...
Yet for all their pleasure in themselves, Yuan could not but see how the very
words they used were foreign words, and how even when they spoke their own
tongues they must add words of a foreign sort to supply some idea they had for
which ...
Page 320
It was a very merry hour, and Yuan could not but be proud of all these his blood
kin, these rich well-clad folk, every woman in the finest gayest hue of satin robe
cut to the hour's fashion, and the men, except the old uncle, in their foreign garb,
...
It was a very merry hour, and Yuan could not but be proud of all these his blood
kin, these rich well-clad folk, every woman in the finest gayest hue of satin robe
cut to the hour's fashion, and the men, except the old uncle, in their foreign garb,
...
Page 342
But across the aisle from his seat were two young men, brothers, who were, it
could be seen, newly come home from foreign parts. Their clothes were new and
cut in the newest foreign way, loose short trousers and long bright-colored ...
But across the aisle from his seat were two young men, brothers, who were, it
could be seen, newly come home from foreign parts. Their clothes were new and
cut in the newest foreign way, loose short trousers and long bright-colored ...
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Review: The House of Earth (House of Earth #1-3)
User Review - Cindy Behrens - GoodreadsWhen I first read "The Good Earth" many years ago, I did not realize it was #1 of 3! This is a real treat to continue to follow the family of Wang Lung. Such lessons in values and morals. A very interesting read. Read full review
Review: The House of Earth (Omnibus)
User Review - YKW - GoodreadsAfter reading the first part of this wonderful work of Pearl S. Buck (the good earth) I thought you know what, I need to have this book and the other two as well. So I started looking for this version ... Read full review
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| Title | House of Earth: The Good Earth; Sons; A House Divided A John Day book |
| Author | Pearl Sydenstricker Buck |
| Publisher | Reynal & Hitchcock, 1935 |
| Length | 783 pages |
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