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 95
... if he have the courage to speak out, and the young man said that China must
have a revolution and must rise against the hated foreigners, Wang Lung was
alarmed and slunk away, feeling that he was the foreigner against whom the
young ...
... if he have the courage to speak out, and the young man said that China must
have a revolution and must rise against the hated foreigners, Wang Lung was
alarmed and slunk away, feeling that he was the foreigner against whom the
young ...
Page 291
Now the sons of Wang Lung could not speak against their father's wife, nor could
their wives speak if they did not, nor could the youngest son, but he stood there
staring at her, his hands clenched on his bosom and his brows drawn down over
...
Now the sons of Wang Lung could not speak against their father's wife, nor could
their wives speak if they did not, nor could the youngest son, but he stood there
staring at her, his hands clenched on his bosom and his brows drawn down over
...
Page 229
“Sir, I am a very common man and poor, and I do not know how to speak to such
as you, honored Sir. I am very common and I have never spoken to one higher
than the head in our village, and I do not know how to speak here, and yet I have
...
“Sir, I am a very common man and poor, and I do not know how to speak to such
as you, honored Sir. I am very common and I have never spoken to one higher
than the head in our village, and I do not know how to speak here, and yet I have
...
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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
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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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Bibliographic information
| 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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