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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).
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
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.
Her first name comes from the Chinese heroine of the novel The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck. Her father left the family when she was a child. Her father left the family when she was a child. Her mother Scarlett Johnson, a self-described "free spirit", moved their family for a year to a remote Mayan village in the Yucatán jungle when Jones was ...
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 Good Earth East Wind: West Wind is a novel by Pearl S. Buck published in 1930, [ 1 ] her first. It focuses on a Chinese woman, Kwei-lan, and the changes that she and her family undergo.
Wang Lung is the protagonist of The Good Earth, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Pearl S. Buck and the first volume of her House of Earth trilogy. Character biography
Pearl Buck's The Good Earth (1985) [32] Personal life. In 1927, Seinfel married theatrical publicist Gerald Goode (born Jerome Goodman). They had a son, Daniel, and a ...