UID:
kobvindex_ZLB16314764
ISBN:
9781453263563
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9781453263563
Serie:
Good Earth Trilogy
Inhalt:
" Pearl S. Buck's timeless masterpiece, the Pulitzer Prize–,inning story of a farmer's journey through China in the 1920s The Good Earth is Buck's classic story of Wang Lung, a Chinese peasant farmer, and his wife, O-lan, a former slave. With luck and hard work, the couple's fortunes improve over the years: They are blessed with sons, and save steadily until one day they can afford to buy property in the House of Wang—,he very house in which O-lan used to work. But success brings with it a new set of problems. Wang soon finds himself the target of jealousy, and as good harvests come and go, so does the social order. Will Wang's family cherish the estate after he's gone? And can his material success, the bedrock of his life, guarantee anything about his soul? Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the William Dean Howells Award, The Good Earth was an Oprah's Book Club choice in 2004. A readers' favorite for generations, this powerful and beautifully written fable resonates with universal themes of hope and family unity. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Pearl S. Buck including rare images from the author's estate."
Inhalt:
Rezension(1): " Pearl S. Buck (1892–,973) was a bestselling and Nobel Prize–,inning author. Her classic novel The Good Earth (1931) was awarded a Pulitzer Prize and William Dean Howells Medal. Born in Hillsboro, West Virginia, Buck was the daughter of missionaries and spent much of the first half of her life in China, where many of her books are set. In 1934, civil unrest in China forced Buck back to the United States. Throughout her life she worked in support of civil and women's rights, and established Welcome House, the first international, interracial adoption agency. In addition to her highly acclaimed novels, Buck wrote two memoirs and biographies of both of her parents. For her body of work, Buck received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938, the first American woman to have done so. She died in Vermont." Rezension(2): " The New York Times : A comment upon the meaning and tragedy of life as it is lived in any age in any quarter of the globe." Rezension(3): " Pittsburgh Post-Gazette :One of the most important and revealing novels of our time." Rezension(4): " Boston Evening Transcript :One need never have lived in China or know anything about the Chinese to understand [ The Good Earth ] or respond to its appeal." Rezension(5): "Hilary Spurling, author of Pearl Buck in China :[Buck] did for the working people of twentieth-century China something of what Dickens had done for London's nineteenth-century poor."
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/2363-1/B7E/10A/51/GoodEarth9781453263563.epub
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https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=B7E10A51-EDF8-408B-8C43-77ABD624C39F&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
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http://voebb.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=B7E10A51-EDF8-408B-8C43-77ABD624C39F
Mehr zum Autor:
Buck, Pearl S.
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