The Good Earth
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| Rating | : | 4.18 (775 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01MG7O55M |
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| Number of Pages | : | 401 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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Even within this foreign worldview, Buck and Bertozzi convey rich moral complexity and universal concerns. A finely rendered showcase for a classic tale.”—Kirkus Reviews. “Bertozzi beautifully distills Buck’s text into poignant snippets… perfectly capturing the story’s timeless subject matter while also underscoring the antiquity of the depicted world
Bertozzi has won multiple Harvey and Eisner awards, the highest honors in comics. He’s also written the upcoming Becoming Andy Warhol. She is buried at Green Hills Farm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.Nick Bertozzi has written and drawn many comics over the years, including The Salon, Lewis & Clark, and the New York Times bestselling Shackleton: Antarctic Odyssey. Buck was born
A long interval I am a well-read male, sixty-five years old. I have read perhaps a thousand books in my lifetime; some fiction, some non-fiction. I recall setting down The Good Earth as a teenager after turning the last page and thinking, “This is the greatest book I have ever read”.I purchased The Good Earth on Kindle recently because it was $3.00 and I recalled it having an effect on me. It moved me as it did fifty years before. It is simply, and yet powerfully written, stirring the same emotions in me as it did before. As I re-read it, I kept reminding myself “This is just fiction . Elsa L. Aguirre said Everybody was very impressed in how the impact of the famine and Wang Lung's attachment and love for his land resonates in every. No wonder this book is a classic. We read it for our Book Club this past Monday. Everybody was very impressed in how the impact of the famine and Wang Lung's attachment and love for his land resonates in every culture and country. We felt sorry for O Lan who devoted her life to her husband and his dream of keeping his piece of land and later helping him acquire more land. She bore stoically three boys and two "slaves" (girls) without ever complaining. "History of Chinese culture by the expert, Pearl S. Buck." according to Kindle Customer. Excellent author. I have read this book many times. She is a classic. Required reading in high school. My son, who attended the same high school, read it too. We both enjoy Pearl S. Buck. I have read all of her books. This story takes you through several generations and gives you an angle of Chinese living that has not been presented before. This is from a farmers point of view. His prosperity is forwarded by his new wife. She is a diligent worker and money saver. Women's rights should promote this story for women's equality.
This moving story of the honest farmer Wang Lung and his selfless wife O-Lan is must reading to fully appreciate the sweeping changes that have occurred in the lives of the Chinese people during the last century. Though more than eighty years have passed since this remarkable novel won the Pulitzer Prize, it has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics in American literature.Now New York Times bestselling author Nick Bertozzi brings Buck’s timeless, epic novel to life with incredible imagery in this vivid graphic novel. Buck’s brilliant novel—beloved by millions of readers—is a universal tale of an ordinary family caught in the tide of history, now accompanied by beautiful, evocative images.. Buck paints an indelible portrait of China in the 1920s, when the last emperor reigned and the vast political and social upheavals of the twentieth century were but distant rumblings. Pearl Buck’s 1931 Pulitzer Prize–winning classic about the rise and fall of Chinese villagers before World War I comes to life in this evocative graphic novel by New York Times bestselling author Nick Bertozzi.In The Good Earth, Pearl S. Through his Eisner Award-winning talents, Bertozzi retraces the whole cycle of life depicted in the unforgettable original: its terrors, its passions, its ambitions, and its rewards