House of Earth: The Good Earth; Sons; A House Divided ...A 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 119
... suddenly as he sat there came a noise like the cracking of heaven and every one of them fell unthinking on the ground and hid their faces , for it seemed as though the hideous roar would catch them all up and crush them . And Wang Lung ...
... suddenly as he sat there came a noise like the cracking of heaven and every one of them fell unthinking on the ground and hid their faces , for it seemed as though the hideous roar would catch them all up and crush them . And Wang Lung ...
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... suddenly weary , although until then he had not known he was , and he rose and asked , " Where is a bed ? I would like to sleep awhile . " The old man replied , " There is a room here we do not use commonly , a room where your ...
... suddenly weary , although until then he had not known he was , and he rose and asked , " Where is a bed ? I would like to sleep awhile . " The old man replied , " There is a room here we do not use commonly , a room where your ...
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... sudden beauty in her as suddenly it was gone and he for- got it in the flash of light her mind sent out or in a witty word her tongue spoke . The body was informed here by the mind , and the mind did not spend itself in thoughts upon ...
... sudden beauty in her as suddenly it was gone and he for- got it in the flash of light her mind sent out or in a witty word her tongue spoke . The body was informed here by the mind , and the mind did not spend itself in thoughts upon ...
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Ai-lan anger angry answered asked bought brother called child clothes country wife court cried Cuckoo daughter dead door earthen house elder eyes face farmer father fear feast felt gate girl gone grew guns hand harelipped hated head heard heart kill knew lady land laughed Leopard lips lived looked lord lord of war Lotus Lung's maid Meng mother never night O-lan old magistrate once passed Pear Blossom poor rice rich robbers robe rose seemed Sheng shouted silent silver slave smiled soldiers sons spoke stared stood strange street suddenly talk tea house tell thing thought told took town trusty turned uncle voice waited Wang Lung Wang the Eldest Wang the Landlord Wang the Merchant Wang the Second Wang the Tiger wife wine woman women words young Yuan