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O-Lan is a fictional character in Pearl S. Buck's 1931 novel The Good Earth. For her portrayal of the character in the 1937 film adaptation , Luise Rainer won the Academy Award for Best Actress . Character biography
The Good Earth is a historical fiction novel by Pearl S. Buck published in 1931 that dramatizes family life in an early 20th-century Chinese village in Anhwei.It is the first book in her House of Earth trilogy, continued in Sons (1932) and A House Divided (1935).
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck (June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973) was an American writer and novelist. She is best known for The Good Earth, the best-selling novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and which won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1932.
The Good Earth is a 1937 American drama film about Chinese farmers who struggle to survive. It was adapted by Talbot Jennings, Tess Slesinger, and Claudine West from the 1932 play by Owen Davis and Donald Davis, which was in itself based on the 1931 novel of the same name by Nobel Prize-winning author Pearl S. Buck.
The recurring theme in Buck's many novels is everyday life in China wherein she describes a rich gallery of characters, trapped between tradition and modernity. [2] The Good Earth was the best-selling novel in the United States in both 1931 and 1932 and was influential in Buck's winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938.
Sons is a historical fiction novel by American author Pearl S. Buck first published by John Day Company in 1932. It is the second book in The House of Earth trilogy, preceded by The Good Earth and followed by A House Divided. The story tackles the issue of Wang Lung's sons and how they handle their father's estate after his death.
The Courier-Journal felt that, like Sons, A House Divided lacks the unity of The Good Earth, but although it is not "marvelous" it is "sound stuff." [2] The Fresno Bee felt that "in many ways it is a better book than the other two of the trilogy" and that Wang Yuan is "perhaps, the most fully realized figure Mrs. Buck has created" and "symbolic of the youth of China striving to find itself in ...
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