BUCK PEARL S.

Good Earth, the

Triangle Books, 1941. Hardcover. A Very Good+ green Hardcover, a silver illustration to the cover, silver titles to the spine. A sound binding, other than a name to the front end paper, the pages are unmarked with age tanning. The DJ is Good with a piece missing of off the front cover top edge and spine end bottom, back cover. "Although many years have passed since Pearl S. Buck’s The Good Earth won the Pulitzer Prize, it has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics. This 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, tells the moving story of honest farmer Wang Lung and his selfless wife O-Lan. "; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 318 pages. Very Good in Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 27173

Catalogue: Fiction, China, History, Culture,Manners & Customs

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