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When O-lan, a servant girl, marries the peasant Wang Lung, she toils tirelessly through four pregnancies for their family's survival. Reward at first is meagre, but there is sustenance in the land - until the famine comes. Half-starved, the family joins thousands of peasants to beg on the city streets. It seems that all is lost, until O-lan's desperate will to survive returns them home with undreamt of wealth. But they have betrayed the earth from which true wealth springs, and the family's money breeds only mistrust, deception - and heartbreak for the woman who had saved them. The Good Earthis a riveting family saga and story of female sacrifice - a classic of twentieth-century literature.
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The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck
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- Titel
- The Good Earth
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Pearl S. Buck
- Verlag
- Longman
- Reihe
- Haus der Erde
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Historische Romane, Familie, Frauen, Kriege, Literarische Fiktion, Verfilmt, Beschäftigung, Land
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 1931
- Originaltitel
- The Good Earth
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- Beschreibung
- When O-lan, a servant girl, marries the peasant Wang Lung, she toils tirelessly through four pregnancies for their family's survival. Reward at first is meagre, but there is sustenance in the land - until the famine comes. Half-starved, the family joins thousands of peasants to beg on the city streets. It seems that all is lost, until O-lan's desperate will to survive returns them home with undreamt of wealth. But they have betrayed the earth from which true wealth springs, and the family's money breeds only mistrust, deception - and heartbreak for the woman who had saved them. The Good Earthis a riveting family saga and story of female sacrifice - a classic of twentieth-century literature.