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When O-lan, a servant girl, marries the peasant Wang Lung, she toils tirelessly through four pregnancies for their family''s survival. Reward at first is meagre, but there is sustenance in the land - until the famine comes.

Half-starved, the family joins thousands of peasants to beg on the city streets. It seems that all is lost, until O-lan''s desperate will to survive returns them home with undreamt of wealth. But they have betrayed the earth from which true wealth springs, and the family''s money breeds only mistrust, deception - and heartbreak for the woman who had saved them.

The Good Earthis a riveting family saga and story of female sacrifice - a classic of twentieth-century literature.

The Good Earth

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      Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
      Publication Date: 14/01/2016
      ISBN13: 9781471151873, 978-1471151873
      ISBN10: 1471151875
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      When O-lan, a servant girl, marries the peasant Wang Lung, she toils tirelessly through four pregnancies for their family''s survival. Reward at first is meagre, but there is sustenance in the land - until the famine comes.

      Half-starved, the family joins thousands of peasants to beg on the city streets. It seems that all is lost, until O-lan''s desperate will to survive returns them home with undreamt of wealth. But they have betrayed the earth from which true wealth springs, and the family''s money breeds only mistrust, deception - and heartbreak for the woman who had saved them.

      The Good Earthis a riveting family saga and story of female sacrifice - a classic of twentieth-century literature.

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