About the book
When O-lan, a servant girl, marries the peasant Wang Lung, she toilstirelessly through four pregnancies for their family's survival. Rewardat first is meagre, but there is sustenance in the land - until the faminecomes.Half-starved, the family joins thousands of peasants to beg on the citystreets. It seems that all is lost, until O-lan's desperate will to survivereturns them home with undreamt of wealth. But they have betrayedthe earth from which true wealth springs, and the family's moneybreeds only mistrust, deception - and heartbreak for the woman whohad saved them.The Good Earth is a riveting family saga and story of female sacrifice -a classic of twentieth-century literature. About the bookWhen O-lan, a servant girl, marries the peasant Wang Lung, she toilstirelessly through four pregnancies for their family's survival. Rewardat first is meagre, but there is sustenance in the land - until the faminecomes.Half-starved, the family joins thousands of peasants to beg on the citystreets. It seems that all is lost, until O-lan's desperate will to survivereturns them home with undreamt of wealth. But they have betrayedthe earth from which true wealth springs, and the family's moneybreeds only mistrust, deception - and heartbreak for the woman whohad saved them.The Good Earth is a riveting family saga and story of female sacrifice -a classic of twentieth-century literature.
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