

The Good Earth
Classic Collection
Author: Pearl S. Buck
Narrator: Anthony Heald
Unabridged: 10 hr 37 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 01/01/2006
Author: Pearl S. Buck
Narrator: Anthony Heald
Unabridged: 10 hr 37 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 01/01/2006
Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973), the daughter of missionaries, was born in West Virginia but spent most of her time until 1934 in China. She began writing while in China and published her first novel shortly after returning to the United States. Her novel The Good Earth was the bestselling fiction book in the United States in 1931 and 1932, and it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938 she became the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, “for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces.â€
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There is a gush of red, marvelous, and mysterious blood running through my veins. I am part Chinese. A race that has given me these small eyes and this yellowish complexion. A race that I have associated with frugality, hard work, mass production, internet restrictions, and Jackie Chan. China, I've......more
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